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西
“going away”·“wind; (by extension) direction”
西 (Nishi) is a surname. It is used in Japanese.
Chinese and Japanese and Korean and mulWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Nishi.
Meaning & origin
What it means
西 is built from elements meaning “going away” and “wind; (by extension) direction”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Built from Japanese 去に (ini, “going away”) + し (shi, “wind; (by extension) direction”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
西’s family of names
In Chinese usage, 西 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the French form XI. In Japanese usage, 西 as a surname has a related form in にし. In Japanese usage, 西 as a surname has a transliteration in にし.
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 4
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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