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[Surname] Re: Meaning for "Kobayashi"
in reply to a message by Chris
Well, Japanese can be quite bothersome when it comes to kanji (ideograms). I searched about it on google, looking for some examples to read from and confirmed my theories: "Ko" means "small" and "bayashi" is a derivated form of "hayashi", meaning "forest" (the "2 trees" kanji).
If there are any other kanji variations for the name Kobayashi, I don´t know... heck, there probably are.
Good Luck!
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Meaning for "Kobayashi"  ·  Chris  ·  4/29/2003, 7:59 PM
Re: Meaning for "Kobayashi"  ·  Antares  ·  5/27/2003, 7:11 AM