Asian Names

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See also Mongol Names.

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Sources:

Academy of St. Gabriel "Medieval Names Archive" - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/

Academy of St. Gabriel - http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/otherasian.shtml#indian
Database of medieval names (from the Medieval Names Archive) - http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/database/
Archive of St. Gabriel reports - http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/archive.cgi

Laurel Name Articles - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names.html#asia

IGI Searches, batches beginning with C, J, K, M (except M17 and M18), or P are acceptable -https://familysearch.org/search/collection/igi

Omniglot On-line Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages - http://www.omniglot.com/index.htm

China:

Chinese Biographical Database Project - https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/cbdb/accessing-cbdb-online

Badgley, Joshua L. (Ii Katsumori, CP. Atlantia), "Introduction to Pre-16th Century Chinese Onomastics". Download PDF

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press; (January 25, 2010)

Feathers, Emily (Wu Yun), "Beyond the Great Wall" - class handout from KWHSS 2020

Putnum, Valerie (Yin Mei Li), "Period Chinese Names", article in the Wayback Machine

India:

An Analysis of South Indian Female Names found in Donors, Devotees and Daughters of God - https://sites.google.com/site/vairavisca/Home/creations/dddog-names
Women's Names from (Mostly) 16th Century Inscriptions at Tirupati (India) - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/tirupati_f.html

Korea:

Han'guk yoktae inmul database: http://people.aks.ac.kr/index.aks
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture: http://encykorea.aks.ac.kr
Korean History Thesaurus: http://thesaurus.history.go.kr/eng/
University of Seoul: http://humanities.snu.ac.kr/eng_humanities/hum_in_03/hum_in_03_i/hum_in_03_i1/index.jsp

Japan:

WWWJDIC: Online Japanese Dictionary Service - http://www.edrdg.org/cgi-bin/wwwjdic/wwwjdic?1C

https://guides.library.upenn.edu/japanesedigitalresources/kuzushiji

https://mojizo.nabunken.go.jp/

Precedents:

Precedents of the SCA College of Arms - http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/precedents.html
Morsulus Heralds Website - http://www.morsulus.org/ (to search the LoARs and Precedents)

Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.

Collected Precedents of the SCA:

Chinese - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Chinese.html

Indian - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Indian.html

Korean - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Korean.html

Tibetan - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Tibetan.html

Uighur - http://heraldry.sca.org/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Uighur.html

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