Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
翼
“arm, hand, wing”
翼 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Tsubasa.
Meaning & origin
What it means
翼 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-lak, meaning “arm, hand, wing.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-lak (“arm, hand, wing”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/b-ram (“rib”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
翼’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 翼 can be written in the Roman alphabet as TASUKU. In Japanese usage, 翼 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tsubasa. In Japanese usage, 翼 has a related form in 翅.
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 3
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.
People named 翼
- Tsubasa OyaJapanese association football playerborn 1986
- Tsubasa YoshihiraJapanese association football playerborn 1998
- Tsubasa NiheiJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Tsubasa AokiJapanese association football playerborn 1993
- Tsubasa SanoJapanese association football playerborn 1994
- Tsubasa HondaJapanese female talent, television presenter, fashion model, YouTuber, game commentator (1992-)
- Tsubasa TerayamaJapanese association football playerborn 2000
- Tsubasa OshimaJapanese association football playerborn 1983
- Tsubasa SuzukiJapanese association football player (born 1994)
Characters named 翼: Tsubasa Oozora (Captain Tsubasa).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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