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雪

“eastern song”

雪 (Yuki) is a feminine given name from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.

Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Yuki.

Meaning & origin

What it means

雪 goes back to a word meaning “eastern song.”

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Where it comes from

雪 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.

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How it developed

From Proto-Japonic *yoki.

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雪’s family of names

In Japanese usage, 雪 can be written in the Roman alphabet as Yuki.

Walk 雪’s family in the name graph

雪YukiXueTuyết

Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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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.

People named 雪

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