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

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/

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

Mongolia:

See Mongol Names

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Use the above links to be sure any precedents listed below haven't been superseded by newer precedents.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

WARNING: Do not cite this page as a reference. This page is on this wiki to make the content "searchable" and easier to find. If you find the information you seek here, go to the original sources to verify the information and use them for your documentation.  Contact the editor-in-chief, Sofya la Rus, if there are copyright concerns or other issues.  sofya at calontiri dot info