Surname · Chinese · Japanese
森
“jungle; forest; country; field”
森 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Mori.
Meaning & origin
What it means
森 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəm, meaning “jungle; forest; country; field.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rəm (“jungle; forest; country; field”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
森’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 森 as a surname has a transliteration in もり. In Japanese usage, 森 as a surname has a transliteration in シン.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
森 has relatives in 4 languages.
3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 9
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Samequivalent
- Moriborrowing · Spanish, Italian
- Siamequivalent
- Semequivalent
- Senequivalent
- Simequivalent
- Somequivalent
- 삼equivalent
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People named 森
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“plum tree”
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