Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
良
“good, beautiful”
良 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Ryau.
Meaning & origin
What it means
良 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l(j)a(k/ŋ), meaning “good, beautiful.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l(j)a(k/ŋ) (“good, beautiful”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
良’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 良 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Ryau. In Japanese usage, 良 can be written in the Roman alphabet as ryō.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 良
- Ryo GermainJapanese association football playerborn 1995
- Ryo SakaiJapanese association football playerborn 1977
- Ryo KubotaJapanese association football player (born 1991)
- Ryo NojimaJapanese association football playerborn 1979
- Yan LiangMilitary general under warlord Yuan Shao (died 200)
- Ryō IkebeJapanese actor (1918-2010)
- Ryo MizunoJapanese author and game designerborn 1963
- Ryo FukuiJapanese jazz pianist (1948-2016)
- Ryō FukudaJapanese racing driverborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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