Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
真
“cowrie; shell”
真 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tadashi.
Meaning & origin
真’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 真 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Atsushi. In Japanese usage, 真 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tadashi. In Japanese usage, 真 can be written in the Roman alphabet as MASASHI.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
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 真
- Makoto YamazakiJapanese association football playerborn 1970
- Makoto MimuraJapanese association football playerborn 1989
- Makoto SugimotoJapanese association football playerborn 1987
- Cao ZhenState of Cao Wei general (died 231)185–231
- Makoto OzoneJapanese jazz pianist, composer (1961-)
- Makoto IshiiJapanese voice actorborn 1976
- Lin Chen-haoTaiwanese judoka (1997-)
- Makoto NagaoJapanese computer scientist1936–2021
- Makoto YasumuraJapanese voice actorborn 1975
Characters named 真: Chen Zhen (fictional character), Makoto Niijima (Persona 5 character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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