Surname · Japanese

針

針 (Hari) is a surname from Old Japanese. It is used in Japanese.

JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Hari.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

針 comes from Old Japanese.

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How it developed

From Old Japanese 針 (pari).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

針HariZhen鍼

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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