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Chinese name syllable

Syllable Kow

  • 高tall; high
  • 玖black jade
Letters
3
Syllables
1
First letter
K
Romanization
Cantonese, Hokkien
Character options
2
Category
Chinese syllable
  • Chinese characters高玖
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata have the syllable Kow in their name

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Kow is a Chinese name syllable from a Cantonese, Hokkien or Teochew reading, commonly the character 高, meaning 'tall'; the meaning depends on the character chosen.

Possible characters for Kow

This spelling is common in Cantonese, Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 高

    tall; high

    Cantonese gou1 / Hokkien kau / Teochew gao1 / Mandarin gāo

    attested

  • 玖

    black jade

    Cantonese gau2 / Hokkien káu / Mandarin jiǔ

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name Kow

Kow is a Chinese name syllable in which ow stands for au or ou, as in Cantonese gou, Hokkien kau or Teochew gao. The character 高 (tall) is recorded for Malaysians with this spelling, and 玖 (black jade; Cantonese gau2) also fits. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

RomanizationCantonese, Hokkien, Teochew

Kow in the JPN ‘Cina’ tables

Peak era
1950s
Share (boy)
11%
JPN entries
1
  • Boy 1950s · 11%

Entries containing this syllable: Ah Kow 1950s ♂ 1,024

Share of each decade’s top-10 total for that sex; names outside the tables have no figure. Chinese naming eras · Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Chinese names with the syllable Kow

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 高 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 玖 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. MDBG: 高 · mdbg.net · meaning
  4. MDBG: 玖 · mdbg.net · meaning

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