Surname · Japanese

珍

“terminal or sentence-ending form”

珍 (Mezurashi) is a surname. It is used in Japanese.

JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Jane.

Meaning & origin

What it means

珍 goes back to a word meaning “terminal or sentence-ending form.”

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

珍’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 珍 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Medurasi. In Japanese usage, 珍 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Mezurashi. 珍 has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jane.

Walk 珍’s family in the name graph

珍MedurasiMezurashiJaneJinZhen진

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 4

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named 珍

Characters named 珍: Xie Zhen (Water Margin character).

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