Surname · Japanese
霜
“bottom, lower part”
霜 (Shimo) is a surname from Old Japanese, ultimately from Proto-Japonic. It is used in Japanese.
JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Shimo.
Meaning & origin
What it means
霜 goes back to a word meaning “bottom, lower part.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
霜 comes from Old Japanese, and ultimately from Proto-Japonic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
霜’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 霜 as a surname can be written in the Roman alphabet as SHIMO.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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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