Gender Feminine
Usage Japanese (Modern, Rare)
Scripts 葉芹, 葉世里(Japanese Kanji) ぱせり(Japanese Hiragana) パセリ(Japanese Katakana)
Meaning & History
Japanese transliteration of the English word parsley, referring to the type of flowering plant that has been widely used in European, Middle Eastern and American cooking.
This name can also be written into kanji with 葉 (you, ha) meaning "blade, leaf, needle" being combined with either 芹 (kin, seri), which refers to the Java waterdropwort, or 世 (se, sei, sou, sanjuu, yo) meaning "generation" and 里 (ri, sato), referring to a unit of distance known as ri or else, a village.This name is very rarely given to girls, if given at all.
This name can also be written into kanji with 葉 (you, ha) meaning "blade, leaf, needle" being combined with either 芹 (kin, seri), which refers to the Java waterdropwort, or 世 (se, sei, sou, sanjuu, yo) meaning "generation" and 里 (ri, sato), referring to a unit of distance known as ri or else, a village.This name is very rarely given to girls, if given at all.