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門
門 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Moon.
Meaning & origin
What it means
門 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mur, meaning “mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mur (“mouth; lip; to hold in mouth; to chew; face; gills”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
門’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 門 as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the English form Moon. In Japanese usage, 門 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as Kado.
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.
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