What does the name/word "Morii" mean?

According to my IME Software from Microsoft there are three versions of the name Morii in Japanese 森井, 森居, and 守井.

森井 The first kanji means forest (wood), the second one is the well.

森居 The first kanji means forest (wood), the second one means to be / to exist and is used for animate beings.

守井 The first kanji means to protect, the second one is the well again.

Rotbuche is absolutely right about the name "Mori". You can rely on his expertise.

Just to add a few things:

I don't know how familiar you are with the Japanese language, but you need to know, that there are many homophones. Like "two, to and too" in the English language, there are even more words in the Japanese language, which sound the same, but have a different meaning and are written different.

That's why there's more than one way to write the name "Mori", with different signs.

"shi" indeed means "death", or is used in many compound words related to death. It's written with the kanji 死 then.

But the spoken word "shi" does have more homophones like 四 meaning "four" in the English language, or 市 meaning "city".

Afaik, there's no spoken word "mori" related to death at all.

But you can look it up yourself, here:

http://jisho.org/words?jap=shi&eng=&dict=edict

http://jisho.org/words?jap=mori&eng=&dict=edict

Since "Morii" is just a transscription to the latin alphabet, the "double i" is used to indicate a different accentuation, than standard English suggests, but the Japanese language doesn't have letters in that sense, so there's nothing wrong in writing "Mori", as well as "Morii". Everything written with latin letters is just an appropriation on how it's pronounced.

I don't see how someone could come to idea that "mori" means death. Maybe it's a not so accurate translation of a Japanese movie-title, book or manga, which lead to this conclusion.

Btw, quite a lot of Japanese surnames - but surely not all - are comprised of only a bunch of common kanjis - here's a list: http://www.jref.com/japan/society/japanese_family_...

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