Given name & surname · Japanese
橘
“standing”·“flower”
橘 (Tachibana) is a surname from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Kitsu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
橘 is built from elements meaning “standing” and “flower”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Japanese 橘 (tatibana), built from Japanese 立ち (tachi, “standing”) + 花 (hana, “flower”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
橘’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 橘 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KITSU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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