Save Type Surname (from location) Usage Japanese Meaning & History 'Side or bank of the river'; written two ways, with two different characters for kawa ‘river’. One family is descended from the northern Fujiwara through the Saionji family; the other from the Sasaki family. The name is also found in Okinawa Island.
Save Type Surname (from location) Usage Japanese Scripts 川畑(Japanese Kanji) かわばた(Japanese Hiragana) Pronounced Pron. KA-WA-BA-TA [key·IPA] Meaning & History From Japanese 川 (kawa) meaning "river, stream" and 畑 (hata) meaning "farm, cropfield".
Save Type Surname (from location) Usage Japanese Scripts 川端, 河端(Japanese Kanji) かわばた(Japanese Hiragana) Pronounced Pron. KA-WA-BA-TA [key·IPA] Meaning & History From Japanese 川 (kawa) or 河 (kawa) both meaning "river, stream" and 端 (hata) meaning "edge, end, tip".
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