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清
“clear; pure; clean”
清 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Saya.
Meaning & origin
What it means
清 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ, meaning “clear; pure; clean.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(t)s(j)aŋ (“clear; pure; clean”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
清’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 清 can be written in the Roman alphabet as SAYAKA. In Japanese usage, 清 can be written in the Roman alphabet as SAYA. In Japanese usage, 清 has a related form in 明.
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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 11
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Cingequivalent
- Qingequivalent
- Chingequivalent
- 澄equivalent
- 聖志equivalent
- 聖equivalent
- 喜義equivalent
- 廉equivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named 清
- Kiyosi ItôJapanese mathematician who pioneered stochastic calculus (1915–2008)
- Kiyoshi KurosawaJapanese film director, screenwriter and film criticborn 1955
- Kiyoshi OkumaJapanese association football player and managerborn 1964
- Pang QingChinese figure skaterborn 1979
- Guo QingChinese taekwondo practitioner (born 2000)
- Kiyoshi TanabeJapanese boxerborn 1940
- Kiyoshi AtsumiJapanese actor (1928-1996)
- Kiyoshi OgawaJapanese military pilot in World War II1922–1945
- Kyoshi TakahamaJapanese writer (1874–1959)
Characters named 清: Song Qing (Water Margin character), Zhang Qing (Water Margin character (Featherless Arrow)).
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