Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese · Vietnamese · unknown
玉
“stone”
玉 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese.
Chinese and Japanese and Vietnamese and unknownWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tama.
Meaning & origin
What it means
玉 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k), meaning “stone.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
玉’s family of names
In Chinese usage, 玉 as a surname shares a linguistic root with the Khmer form ឱក.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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.
People named 玉
- Li YuChinese film director and screenwriterborn 1973
- Zhou YuOlympic canoeistborn 1989
- Ōnishi TamaJapanese religious leader1916–1969
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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