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陽
“to be bright”
陽 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Akira.
Meaning & origin
What it means
陽 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *laŋ, meaning “to be bright.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *laŋ (“to be bright”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
陽’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 陽 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Akira.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 35
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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- 明良equivalent
- 彰equivalent
- 昶equivalent
- 章equivalent
- 啓equivalent
- 明equivalent
- 晟equivalent
- 旭equivalent
- 輝equivalent
- 昭equivalent
- 周equivalent
- 東equivalent
- 行equivalent
- 章良equivalent
- 證equivalent
- 皓equivalent
- 晶equivalent
- 聡equivalent
- 鑑equivalent
- 暁equivalent
- Yeungequivalent
- 融equivalent
- 智equivalent
- 昌equivalent
- 哲equivalent
- 徹equivalent
- 亮equivalent
People named 陽
- Akira TozawaJapanese professional wrestlerborn 1985
- Akira KubotaJapanese association football playerborn 1973
- Chen YangChinese field hockey playerborn 1997
- Akira LentingJapanese cross country skierborn 1990
- Bo LeChinese horse tamer
- Yang YangChinese badminton playerborn 1963
- Akira InabaJapanese shogi playerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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