英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ʃɔːn/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ʃɑn/

固有名詞

Shawn

1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of Shaun, a unisex given name.
   • 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine, Bantam Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 169:

     Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales.

   • 1996, Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question: Stories, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 141:

     Or take Sean, S-E-A-N. Been spelled like that for about five hundred years. But not them, they've gotta spell it S-H-A-W-N. Like they have a right to that name in the first place.

   • 2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN‎:

     Earlier this week, an anonymous Jane Doe filed an amended complaint against Combs and Jay-Z, whose given name is Shawn Carter, which revealed that a previously unnamed celebrity in her original complaint against Combs, initially filed in October, was Carter.

派生語

アナグラム

• Hawns, hwans