Given name · Chinese · Japanese
百合
“to sway, to swing, to wave back and forth”
百合 (Yuri) is a feminine given name, probably from Chinese. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Lily.
Meaning & origin
What it means
百合 probably goes back to a word meaning “to sway, to swing, to wave back and forth.”
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百合’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 百合 has a conventional equivalent in the English form Lily. In Japanese usage, 百合 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Yuri.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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