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In Netherlandic Dutch, however, José is a feminine given name and is pronounced ⓘ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name Josina and even a Dutch hypocorism [1] of the name Johanna. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and ...
The Bible offers two explanations for the origins of the name Yosef: first, it is compared to the word asaf from the root /'sp/, ' taken away ': "And she conceived, and bore a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach"; Yosef is then identified with the similar root /ysp/, meaning ' add ': "And she called his name Joseph; and said, The L ORD shall add to me another son."
Related names Joseph, Josef, Yoseph, Yosef, Yase, Yose, Jouse, Yúsuf, Yousef, Josie Jose is the English transliteration of the Hebrew and Aramaic name Yose , which is etymologically linked to Yosef or Joseph .
Joe Gibken, a main character in Japanese series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger; Joe Gipp, a character in the 1987 American teen comedy film Adventures in Babysitting; Joe Goldberg, main character of the psychological thriller novel and television series You; Joe Higashi, in the video game Fatal Fury; Joe Jitsu, Beano comics character
Nippon appeared in history only at the end of the 7th century. The Old Book of Tang (舊唐書), one of the Twenty-Four Histories, stated that the Japanese envoy disliked his country's name Woguo (Chinese) (倭國), and changed it to Nippon (日本), or "Origin of the Sun". Another 8th-century chronicle, True Meaning of Shiji (史記正義 ...
Japanese names may be written in hiragana or katakana, the Japanese language syllabaries for words of Japanese or foreign origin, respectively. As such, names written in hiragana or katakana are phonetic rendering and lack meanings that are expressed by names written in the logographic kanji.
The Japanese reading of the characters in one of Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen's familiar names, Sun Zhongshan (孫中山), is also read as "Nakayama" in Japanese. Other notable people with the surname include: (Names are listed by field, alphabetically by given name in the western convention of given-name, surname for clarity.)
Ōya, also spelled Ohya or Oya, is a Japanese surname. In Japanese, the meaning of the name depends on the kanji used to write it; some ways of writing the name include "big arrow" (大矢), "big house" (大家, 大宅, or 大屋), and "big valley" (大谷). [1]