Given name & surname · Japanese · Korean
道
道 (Dō) is a surname from Middle Chinese. It is used in Japanese.
Japanese and KoreanWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Makoto.
Meaning & origin
道’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 道 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Makoto. In Japanese usage, 道 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Tadashi. In Japanese usage, 道 can be written in the Roman alphabet as OSAMU.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 12
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 道
- Feng DaoChinese inventor, printer, and politician (882-954)
- Li DaoyuanChinese geographer, writer, and politician during the Northern Wei dynasty401–527
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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