Given name & surname · Japanese
武蔵
“nettle plain land”
武蔵 (Musashi) is a unisex given name from Old Japanese, ultimately from Ainu. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Muzō.
Meaning & origin
What it means
武蔵 goes back to a word meaning “nettle plain land.”
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Where it comes from
武蔵 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Ainu.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
武蔵’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 武蔵 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Buzō. In Japanese usage, 武蔵 has a related form in 武藏. In Japanese usage, 武蔵 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Muzō.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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