Kim
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Clipping of Kimball and Kimberley as a male name, and of Kimberley and Kimberly as a female name.
Proper noun edit
Kim (plural Kims)
- A unisex given name
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, chapter I, in Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC, page 1:
- The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and 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)
- 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.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
male given name
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
Proper noun edit
Kim (plural Kims)
- A surname from Korean, the English form of a surname very common in Korea. (김 (Gim), hanja: 金), the most common Korean surname.
- 2020 February 16, Justin McCurry, Nemo Kim, “Parasite: how Oscar triumph has exposed South Korea’s social divide”, in The Observer[1]:
- Centring on the tension between the Kims, a basement-dwelling family of “dirt spoons” in Seoul, and the Parks, a family at the opposite end of the social spectrum, Parasite’s plot is predicated on the widening gap between the haves and the have nots in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy.
Translations edit
Korean surname
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
Short form of Joakim.
Proper noun edit
Kim
- a male given name from Hebrew
References edit
- [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 34 878 males with the given name Kim have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
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Kim f or m
- a unisex given name from English
Anagrams edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Kim
- a male given name
Declension edit
| Inflection of Kim (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Kim | Kimit | ||
| genitive | Kimin | Kimien | ||
| partitive | Kimiä | Kimejä | ||
| illative | Kimiin | Kimeihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Kim | Kimit | ||
| accusative | nom. | Kim | Kimit | |
| gen. | Kimin | |||
| genitive | Kimin | Kimien | ||
| partitive | Kimiä | Kimejä | ||
| inessive | Kimissä | Kimeissä | ||
| elative | Kimistä | Kimeistä | ||
| illative | Kimiin | Kimeihin | ||
| adessive | Kimillä | Kimeillä | ||
| ablative | Kimiltä | Kimeiltä | ||
| allative | Kimille | Kimeille | ||
| essive | Kiminä | Kimeinä | ||
| translative | Kimiksi | Kimeiksi | ||
| abessive | Kimittä | Kimeittä | ||
| instructive | — | Kimein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Statistics edit
- Kim is the 130th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,902 male individuals (and as a middle name to 639 more), and also is the 1099th (tied with 1 other name) most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 133 female individuals (and as a middle name to 168 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Kim
- a diminutive of the male given name Joachim, from Hebrew
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Norwegian edit
Etymology edit
Short form of Joakim.
Proper noun edit
Kim
- a male given name from Hebrew
Swedish edit
Proper noun edit
Kim c (genitive Kims)
- a male given name from Hebrew, shortened from Joakim
- a female given name from English, of recent usage
Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 金 (“gold”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [kim˧˧]
- Homophone: kim
Proper noun edit
- (historical) the Jin dynasty (1115–1234 C.E.)
- a surname from Chinese
- a female given name from Chinese
Derived terms edit
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See also edit
| Dynasties (朝代) in Chinese history | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Time period | Divisions | |||
| Xia 夏 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
2070 – 1600 BCE | ||||
| Shang 商 (nhà ～, ～ triều) 殷 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1600 – 1046 BCE | ||||
| Zhou 周 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1046 – 256 BCE | Western Zhou 西周 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
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| Eastern Zhou 東周 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
Spring and Autumn period 春秋 | ||||
| Warring States period 戰國 | |||||
| Qin 秦 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
221 – 206 BCE | ||||
| Han 漢 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
206 BCE – 220 C.E. | Western Han 西漢 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||
| Xin 新 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Eastern Han 東漢 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Three Kingdoms 三國 |
220 – 280 C.E. | Wei 魏 | |||
| Shu Han 蜀漢 | |||||
| Wu 吳 | |||||
| Jin 晉 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
266 – 420 C.E. | Western Jin 西晉 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||
| Eastern Jin 東晉 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Southern and Northern dynasties 南北朝 (~ triều) |
420 – 589 C.E. | Northern dynasties 北朝 (~ triều) |
Northern Wei 北魏 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | ||
| Western Wei 西魏 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Eastern Wei 東魏 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Northern Zhou 北周 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Northern Qi 北齊 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Southern dynasties 南朝 (~ triều) |
Liu Song 劉宋 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | ||||
| Southern Qi 南齊 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Liang 梁 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Chen 陳 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Sui 隋 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
581 – 618 C.E. | ||||
| Tang 唐 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
618 – 907 C.E. | ||||
| Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms 五代十國 |
907 – 960 C.E. | ||||
| Liao 遼 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
907 – 1125 C.E. | ||||
| Song 宋 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
960 – 1279 C.E. | Northern Song 北宋 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||
| Southern Song 南宋 (nhà ～, ～ triều) | |||||
| Western Xia 西夏 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1038 – 1227 C.E. | ||||
| Jin 金 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1115 – 1234 C.E. | ||||
| Western Liao 西遼 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1124 – 1218 C.E. | ||||
| Yuan 元 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1271 – 1368 C.E. | ||||
| Ming 明 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1368 – 1644 C.E. | ||||
| Qing 清 (nhà ～, ～ triều) |
1636 – 1912 C.E. | ||||