Jinmeiyō (names) kanji

649 kanji in KANJIDIC2 grade 9 (Jinmeiyō (names)), with meanings, readings and stroke order.

• 伊 Italy
• 智 wisdom
• 弘 vast
• 彦 lad
• 阿 Africa
• 李 plum
• 浩 wide expanse
• 菱 diamond (shape)
• 宏 wide
• 幌 canopy
• 之 of
• 梶 sculling oar
• 昌 prosperous
• 靖 peaceful
• 也 to be (classical)
• 旭 rising sun
• 磯 seashore
• 孜 industriousness
• 笠 bamboo hat
• 聡 wise
• 曙 dawn
• 筑 an ancient musical instrument
• 萩 bush clover
• 栗 chestnut
• 嘉 applaud
• 篠 bamboo grass
• 菅 sedge
• 俣 crotch
• 淵 abyss
• 辰 sign of the dragon
• 霞 be hazy
• 柏 oak
• 辻 crossing
• 淳 pure
• 荻 reed
• 鳩 pigeon
• 柴 brush
• 桂 Japanese Judas-tree
• 晋 advance
• 晃 clear
• 桐 paulownia
• 鷹 hawk
• 猪 boar
• 紘 large
• 庄 level
• 敦 industry
• 磐 rock
• 祐 help
• 鵬 phoenix
• 亘 span
• 鄭 an ancient Chinese province
• 芦 reed
• 笹 bamboo grass
• 釧 bracelet
• 綾 design
• 毅 strong
• 稔 harvest
• 函 box (archaic)
• 鴨 wild duck
• 樋 water pipe
• 楊 willow
• 駿 a good horse
• 亮 clear
• 吾 I
• 椿 camellia
• 圭 square jewel
• 蓮 lotus
• 堺 world
• 窪 depression
• 雀 sparrow
• 畠 field
• 瑞 congratulations
• 伍 five
• 蘭 orchid
• 蒲 bullrush
• 秦 Qin dynasty
• 茅 miscanthus reed
• 輔 help
• 湘 name of Chinese river
• 灘 open sea
• 堰 dam
• 獅 lion
• 郁 cultural progress
• 鷲 eagle
• 楠 camphor tree
• 芥 mustard
• 其 that
• 玲 sound of jewels
• 翔 soar
• 肇 beginning
• 榎 lotus tree
• 劉 weapon of war
• 幡 flag
• 諏 consult
• 亨 pass through
• 嶺 peak
• 喬 high
• 琵 glissando on strings
• 琶 lute
• 蘇 be resuscitated
• 寅 sign of the tiger
• 乃 from
• 洲 continent
• 樽 barrel
• 樺 birch
• 槙 twig
• 薩 salvation
• 巌 rock
• 淀 pool
• 胡 barbarian
• 峻 high
• 哨 scout
• 槻 Zelkova tree
• 蝶 butterfly
• 梁 weir
• 琢 polish
• 箕 winnowing
• 芭 banana
• 逗 stop
• 楢 oak
• 蕉 banana
• 兜 helmet
• 琉 precious stone
• 朋 companion
• 烏 crow
• 奄 cover
• 遼 distant
• 橘 mandarin orange
• 漱 gargle
• 桧 Japanese cypress
• 宋 dwell
• 苑 garden
• 巽 southeast
• 杜 woods
• 欣 take pleasure in
• 篇 volume
• 此 this
• 巴 comma-design
• 禎 happiness
• 菩 kind of grass
• 檜 Japanese cypress
• 稜 angle
• 牟 pupil (eye)
• 榊 sacred Shinto tree
• 錫 copper
• 倭 Yamato
• 廟 mausoleum
• 斐 beautiful
• 魁 charging ahead of others
• 鴻 large bird
• 於 at
• 赳 strong and brave
• 逢 meeting
• 凧 kite
• 鵜 cormorant
• 庵 hermitage
• 葵 hollyhock
• 禄 fief
• 孟 chief
• 狼 wolf
• 尖 be pointed
• 尭 high
• 卿 you
• 已 stop
• 巳 sign of the snake or serpent
• 暢 stretch
• 粟 millet
• 燕 swallow (bird)
• 綴 compose
• 埴 clay
• 魯 foolish
• 牡 male
• 芹 parsley
• 杏 apricot
• 迦 (used phonetically)
• 鳳 male mythical bird
• 馨 fragrant
• 蔭 shade
• 慧 wise
• 祇 national or local god
• 鷺 heron
• 彬 refined
• 袴 men's formal divided skirt
• 匡 correct
• 讃 praise
• 欽 respect
• 湛 fill
• 挺 bravely volunteer
• 嵯 steep
• 雁 wild goose
• 佃 cultivated rice field
• 綜 rule
• 翠 green
• 鮎 freshwater trout
• 播 plant
• 榛 hazelnut
• 帖 quire (of paper)
• 桶 tub
• 惣 all
• 鞍 saddle
• 蔦 vine
• 萱 miscanthus reed
• 梯 ladder
• 雫 drop
• 絆 bonds
• 湊 port
• 隼 falcon
• 舵 rudder
• 渚 strand
• 珂 jewel
• 稀 rare
• 峨 high mountain
• 芙 lotus
• 皐 swamp
• 雛 chick
• 惟 consider
• 宕 cave
• 喧 noisy
• 佑 help
• 樟 camphor
• 耀 shine
• 黛 blackened eyebrows
• 櫛 comb
• 渥 kindness
• 濡 get wet
• 槍 spear
• 惇 sincere
• 脩 dried meat
• 甫 for the first time
• 壕 trench
• 嬉 glad
• 蒼 blue
• 粥 rice gruel
• 暉 shine
• 捧 lift up
• 只 only
• 檀 cedar
• 凱 victory song
• 彗 comet
• 樫 evergreen oak
• 噂 rumor
• 梓 catalpa tree
• 洛 Kyoto
• 醍 whey
• 砦 fort
• 丑 sign of the ox or cow
• 蕨 bracken
• 隈 corner
• 叶 grant
• 汐 eventide
• 絢 brilliant fabric design
• 朔 conjunction (astronomy)
• 伽 nursing
• 夷 barbarian
• 杭 stake
• 寓 temporary abode
• 黎 dark
• 坐 sit
• 塙 projecting tableland or mountain
• 冴 be clear
• 葦 reed
• 萌 show symptoms of
• 饗 banquet
• 偲 recollect
• 漕 rowing
• 杵 wooden pestle
• 允 license
• 蒙 ignorance
• 蕃 grow luxuriously
• 碓 pestle
• 瀕 shore
• 蒔 sow (seeds)
• 鯉 carp
• 竪 length
• 遥 far off
• 或 some
• 矩 ruler
• 舜 type of morning glory
• 杖 staff
• 瑛 sparkle of jewelry
• 彪 spotted
• 卯 sign of the hare or rabbit
• 撫 stroke
• 喋 talk
• 溢 overflow
• 揃 be complete
• 綺 figured cloth
• 巷 fork in road
• 竿 pole
• 蟹 crab
• 茜 madder
• 凌 endure
• 厨 kitchen
• 犀 rhinoceros
• 皓 white
• 洸 sparkling water
• 毬 burr
• 叢 plexus
• 轟 roar
• 貰 get
• 儲 be profitable
• 緋 scarlet
• 鯛 sea bream
• 怜 wise
• 溜 collect
• 邑 village
• 碧 blue
• 瓜 melon
• 槌 hammer
• 啄 peck
• 穣 good crops
• 酉 west
• 蹄 hoof
• 悌 serving our elders
• 楕 ellipse
• 詫 apologize
• 鱒 salmon trout
• 惚 fall in love with
• 藁 straw
• 柚 citron
• 縞 stripe
• 鱗 scales (fish)
• 釘 nail
• 弛 slacken
• 壬 9th calendar sign
• 硯 inkstone
• 蝦 shrimp
• 娃 beautiful
• 斡 go around
• 按 hold
• 謂 reason
• 亥 sign of the hog
• 鰯 sardine
• 胤 descendent
• 迂 roundabout way
• 窺 lie in wait
• 姥 old woman
• 厩 barn
• 閏 intercalation
• 云 say
• 叡 intelligence
• 曳 pull
• 甥 nephew
• 襖 opaque sliding door
• 禾 two-branch tree radical (no. 115)
• 茄 eggplant
• 嘩 noisy
• 俄 sudden
• 臥 bend down
• 駕 vehicle
• 廻 round
• 恢 wide
• 晦 dark
• 鎧 put on armor
• 浬 knot
• 恰 just as
• 椛 autumn foliage
• 鞄 suitcase
• 侃 strong
• 柑 citrus
• 莞 smiling
• 徽 good
• 誼 friendship
• 掬 scoop up water with the hand
• 鞠 ball
• 桔 used in plant names
• 砧 fulling block
• 汲 draw (water)
• 灸 moxa cautery
• 笈 backpack bookcase
• 鋸 saw (cuts wood)
• 蕎 buckwheat
• 禽 bird
• 衿 neck
• 玖 beautiful black jewel
• 喰 eat
• 屑 rubbish
• 沓 shoes
• 鍬 hoe with long blade at acute angle
• 袈 a coarse camlet
• 祁 intense
• 戟 halbert
• 訣 separation
• 倦 lose interest in
• 捲 roll
• 牽 pull
• 絃 string
• 諺 proverb
• 乎 question mark
• 糊 paste
• 跨 be
• 梧 Chinese parasol tree
• 檎 apple
• 瑚 ancestral offering receptacle
• 醐 boiled butter
• 倖 happiness
• 庚 7th
• 昂 rise
• 腔 body cavity
• 膏 fat
• 閤 small side gate
• 劫 threat
• 忽 in a moment
• 昏 dark
• 些 a little bit
• 叉 fork in road
• 瑳 polish
• 裟 Buddhist surplice
• 哉 how
• 肴 accompaniment for drinks
• 窄 narrow
• 錆 rust
• 晒 bleach
• 撒 scatter
• 燦 brilliant
• 珊 coral
• 纂 editing
• 仔 offspring (animal)
• 斯 this
• 爾 you
• 而 and yet
• 竺 bamboo
• 悉 all
• 紗 gauze
• 勺 ladle
• 灼 miraculous
• 惹 attract
• 蒐 gather
• 輯 gather
• 竣 end
• 楯 shield
• 醇 pure sake
• 恕 excuse
• 嘗 once
• 捷 victory
• 梢 treetops
• 菖 iris
• 裳 skirt
• 鞘 sheath
• 丞 help
• 燭 light
• 訊 request
• 錐 auger
• 錘 weight
• 嵩 be aggravated
• 頗 prejudiced
• 摺 rub
• 棲 live
• 栖 nest
• 蹟 remains
• 碩 large
• 撰 composing
• 穿 put on (to the feet)
• 銑 pig iron
• 閃 flash
• 噌 boisterous
• 楚 whip
• 疏 pass through
• 陀 steep
• 苔 moss
• 托 requesting
• 茸 mushroom
• 辿 follow (road)
• 坦 level
• 歎 grief
• 耽 addicted
• 馳 run
• 註 notes
• 寵 affection
• 牒 label
• 脹 dilate
• 柘 wild mulberry
• 紬 pongee (a knotted silk cloth)
• 汀 water's edge
• 鼎 three legged kettle
• 擢 excel in
• 纏 wear
• 兎 rabbit
• 堵 fence
• 砥 whetstone
• 套 accumulate
• 祷 pray
• 董 correct
• 撞 thrust
• 萄 grape vine
• 鳶 black kite
• 沌 primeval chaos
• 遁 flee
• 凪 lull
• 薙 mow down (the enemy)
• 捺 press
• 馴 get used to
• 汝 you
• 賑 flourish
• 廿 twenty
• 禰 ancestral shrine
• 祢 ancestral shrine
• 杷 kind of rake
• 煤 soot
• 這 crawl
• 秤 balances
• 箔 foil
• 曝 bleach
• 莫 must not
• 筈 notch of an arrow
• 挽 saw
• 庇 protect
• 枇 loquat
• 毘 help
• 柊 holly
• 疋 head
• 畢 the end
• 紐 string
• 瓢 gourd
• 豹 leopard
• 斧 ax
• 葡 wild grape
• 蕪 turnip
• 楓 maple
• 葺 thatch
• 蕗 butterbur
• 吻 proboscis
• 焚 burn
• 頁 page
• 瞥 glance at
• 娩 bear (children)
• 鞭 whip
• 圃 garden
• 戊 5th calendar sign
• 蓬 sagebrush
• 鋒 dagger
• 卜 divining
• 殆 almost
• 哩 mile
• 柾 straight grain
• 亦 also
• 沫 splash
• 迄 until
• 麿 I
• 蔓 vine
• 蓑 straw raincoat
• 椋 type of deciduous tree
• 姪 niece
• 勿 not
• 尤 reasonable
• 籾 unhulled rice
• 匁 monme
• 耶 question mark
• 宥 soothe
• 輿 palanquin
• 傭 employ
• 蓉 lotus
• 螺 small, edible, helical fresh-water mollusk
• 裡 reverse
• 掠 pillage
• 諒 fact
• 淋 lonely
• 琳 jewel
• 麟 Chinese unicorn
• 伶 actor
• 憐 pity
• 漣 ripples
• 煉 refine metals
• 簾 bamboo screen
• 櫓 oar
• 肋 rib
• 亙 range
• 椀 wooden or lacquered bowl
• 碗 porcelain bowl
• 侑 urge to eat
• 俐 clever
• 凛 cold
• 凰 female phoenix bird
• 勁 strong
• 奎 star
• 崚 mountains towering in a row
• 巖 rock
• 巫 sorcerer
• 徠 induce
• 惺 realize
• 昊 sky
• 昴 the Pleiades
• 晏 late
• 晄 clear
• 晨 morning
• 晟 clear
• 栞 bookmark
• 梛 type of tall evergreen tree
• 椰 coconut tree
• 橙 bitter orange
• 櫂 oar
• 洵 alike
• 渾 all
• 滉 deep and broad (water)
• 澪 water route
• 煌 glitter
• 燎 burn
• 燿 shine
• 珈 ornamental hairpin
• 珀 amber
• 琥 jewelled utensil
• 瑶 beautiful as a jewel
• 眸 pupil of the eye
• 祿 fief
• 稟 salary in rice
• 穰 abundance
• 穹 sky
• 笙 a reed instrument
• 綸 thread
• 羚 antelope
• 苺 strawberry
• 茉 jasmine
• 莉 jasmine
• 菫 the violet
• 萠 show symptoms of
• 蕾 bud (plants, mushrooms not yet opened)
• 詢 consult with
• 諄 tedious
• 迪 edify
• 逞 sturdy
• 釉 glaze
• 頌 eulogy
• 颯 sudden
• 驍 strong
• 麒 Chinese unicorn
• 堯 high
• 槇 twig
• 遙 far off
• 凜 cold
• 熙 bright
• 俠 chivalrous person
• 摑 box one's ears
• 焰 flame
• 禱 pray
• 繡 embroider
• 繫 attach
• 萊 goosefoot
• 蔣 surname
• 蠟 wax
• 醬 any jam-like or paste-like food
• 顚 top
• 鷗 seagull
• 俱 all
• 吞 swallow
• 簞 small bamboo basket for holding
• 蟬 cicada
• 猪 pig
• 琢 polish
• 祐 help

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