Kimとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.

固有名詞

Kim

1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   • 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, Chapter 1

     The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, かつ pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim’s mother’s sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a colonel's family and had married Kimball O’Hara, a young color-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.

   Kim McCone ― (name of an Irish linguist)

2. A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
   • 1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 1:

     Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. […] It is no secret that the absurd monosyllable which comprises her given name is made up of the first letters of three states — Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri — in all of which she was, incredibly enough, born.

   • 1991 Don DeLillo, Mao II, Viking, →ISBN, page 16

     It will take some getting used to, a husband named Kim. She has known girls named Kim since she was a squirt in a sunsuit. Quite a few really. Kimberleys and plain Kims.

語源 2

From Korean 김 (gim).

別の表記

• Gim

固有名詞

Kim

1. A Korean surname, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.