Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
琴
“tree, wood”·“sound”
琴 (Koto) is a feminine given name from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Kotomi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
琴 is built from elements meaning “tree, wood” and “sound”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 木 (ko, “tree, wood”) + 音 (oto, “sound”).
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琴’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 琴 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KOTOE. In Japanese usage, 琴 can be written in the Roman alphabet as KOTOMI. In Japanese usage, 琴 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kin.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 7
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 琴
- Liang QinChinese fencerborn 1972
- Tsai ChinTaiwanese singerborn 1957
- Hoàng CầmVietnamese poet, writer and playwright (1922–2010)
- Ning QinChinese freestyle skierborn 1992
- Hoàng CầmColonel-general of People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), Commander of PAVN forces in the Operation Attleboro 19661920–2013
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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