Surname · Chinese
蓋
“to cover, incubate, hatch”
蓋 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
蓋 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)wap, meaning “to cover, incubate, hatch.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)wap (“to cover, incubate, hatch”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
蓋’s family of names
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.
People named 蓋
Characters named 蓋: Chao Gai (Water Margin character).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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