Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · Korean · mul · unknown
桂
“fragrance, good smell”·“to come out, to put something out”
桂 (Katsura) is a unisex given name from Old Japanese. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and Korean and mul and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Katsura.
Meaning & origin
What it means
桂 is built from elements meaning “fragrance, good smell” and “to come out, to put something out”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 香 (ka, “fragrance, good smell”) + 出 (zu, “to come out, to put something out”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
桂’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 桂
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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