Given name & surname · Chinese · Japanese
麻生
“hemp plant”·“place where vegetation grows”
麻生 (Asō) is a surname. It is used in Chinese and Japanese.
Chinese and JapaneseWritten in Chinese characters script. In English: Asafu.
Meaning & origin
What it means
麻生 is built from elements meaning “hemp plant” and “place where vegetation grows”.
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麻生’s family of names
In Japanese usage, 麻生 has a related form in まお.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
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Spellings & scripts 1
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Across languages 1
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