Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
港
“water”·“gate”
港 (Minato) is a masculine given name from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Minato.
Meaning & origin
What it means
港 is built from elements meaning “water” and “gate”.
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Where it comes from
港 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Japonic *minato, built from Japanese 水 (mi-, “water”) + な (na) + 門 (to, “gate”).
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港’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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