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Japanese Name Explorer

Combine pronunciation, written-form and corpus classifications to find source-recorded names. Filters are a research utility: combinations stay temporary and canonical name pages remain the primary reference records.

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17 results shownAlphabetical by indexed reading.
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Hoshikawa

乾川ほしかわ · 4 morae

5 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Inui

乾いぬい · 3 morae

10 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Inuta

乾田いぬた · 3 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kan

乾かん · 2 morae

27 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kanbe

乾辺かんべ · 3 morae

12 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kannaka

乾中かんなか · 4 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kanzawa

乾澤かんざわ · 4 morae

15 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kawai

乾かわい · 3 morae

16 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kawaki

乾かわき · 3 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kawashima

乾島かわしま · 4 morae

15 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Ken

乾けん · 2 morae

13 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kenbō

乾房けんぼう · 4 morae

4 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kenda

乾田けんだ · 3 morae

13 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kenjō

乾条けんじょう · 4 morae

22 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kenno

乾野けんの · 3 morae

4 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kenryū

乾龍けんりゅう · 4 morae

4 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Nukui

乾ぬくい · 3 morae

8 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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What the explorer can and cannot tell you

Exact-kanji filters require the selected character(s) to occur in the same JMnedict written form. Morae are calculated from the source-recorded kana reading. Gender labels reflect dictionary classifications in the imported records. “Most corpus spelling variants” measures source-record coverage only; it is not a popularity ranking in Japan.