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水
“flow; stream”
水 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Sui.
Meaning & origin
What it means
水 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(j), meaning “flow; stream.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(j) (“flow; stream”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-turʔ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
水’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 水 can be written in the Roman alphabet as SUI. In Japanese usage, 水 can be written in the Roman alphabet as MIDU. In Japanese usage, 水 can be written in the Roman alphabet as MIZU.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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