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Pages in category "Japanese masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,428 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), [1] as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently. [2]
Pages in category "Japanese-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,998 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
To alleviate any confusion on how to pronounce the names of other Japanese people, most official Japanese documents require Japanese to write their names in both kana and kanji. [31] Chinese place names and Chinese personal names appearing in Japanese texts, if spelled in kanji, are almost invariably read with on'yomi. Especially for older and ...
Kira kira name (キラキラネーム, kira kira nēmu, lit. ' sparkling name ') is a term for a modern Japanese given name that has an atypical pronunciation or meaning. . Common characteristics of these names include unorthodox readings for kanji, pop culture references, or the use of foreign
One character was added to Unicode version 6.0 in 2010, 𛀁 (U+1B001 HIRAGANA LETTER ARCHAIC YE which has the formal alias HENTAIGANA LETTER E-1), and the remaining 285 hentaigana characters were added in Unicode version 10.0 in June 2017. [12] The Unicode block for Kana Supplement is U+1B000–U+1B0FF:
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In works aimed at adult Japanese speakers, furigana may be used on a word written in uncommon kanji; in the mass media, they are generally used on words containing non-Jōyō kanji. Furigana commonly appear alongside kanji names and their romanizations on signs for railway stations, even if the pronunciation of the kanji is commonly known.