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武
“war, army, soldier”
武 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Chinese and Japanese and VietnameseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Takeru.
Meaning & origin
What it means
武 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-maq, meaning “war, army, soldier.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *d-maq (“war, army, soldier”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
武’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 武 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Takeshi. In Japanese usage, 武 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TAKERU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 武
- Sun Tzu6th century BCE Chinese general and military strategist543 BC–495 BC
- Takeshi KitanoJapanese film director, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter and video game designer (born 1947)
- Takeshi HamadaJapanese association football playerborn 1982
- Cai WuChinese politicianborn 1949
- Dou WuChinese Han Dynasty politician and scholar (died 168)100–168
- Meng WuChinese military general from the state of Qin during the Warring States period250 BC
- Jiang WuChinese actorborn 1967
- Chen WuGeneral serving warlord Sun Quan (died 215)200–215
- Takeshi NagataJapanese astronomer (1913-1991)
Characters named 武: Zhu Wu (Water Margin character), Takeshi Yamamoto (Reborn!).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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