Surname · Japanese
河原
“river”·“plain”
河原 (Kawara) is a surname from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Kafabara.
Meaning & origin
What it means
河原 is built from elements meaning “river” and “plain”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 河 (kawa, “river”) + 原 (hara, “plain”).
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河原’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 河原 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kafabara. In Japanese usage, 河原 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kawabara. In Japanese usage, 河原 as a surname has a related form in 川原.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
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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