Where does “麻生” come from?

麻生 (Old Japanese) comes from Old Japanese 麻 — hemp or ramie plant.

麻生 (Old Japanese): a place where hemp or ramie plants grow

Definitions

  1. a place where hemp or ramie plants grow

Ancestry of “麻生”, step by step

麻生 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanesehemp or ramie plant

via Old Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Japanese
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