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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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15 results shownAlphabetical by indexed reading.
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Kana

家山かな · 2 morae

56 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Kayama

家山かやま · 3 morae

23 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Sanbe

山家さんべ · 3 morae

6 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Sanga

山家さんが · 3 morae

7 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Sanka

山家さんか · 3 morae

6 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Sanya

山家さんや · 3 morae

5 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamabe

山家やまべ · 3 morae

6 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamaga

山家やまが · 3 morae

6 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamage

山家やまげ · 3 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamaka

山家やまか · 3 morae

8 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamanobe

山家やまのべ · 4 morae

14 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamanoe

山家やまのえ · 4 morae

4 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamashige

山士家やましげ · 4 morae

5 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamauchi

山家やまうち · 4 morae

3 recorded spellings in the imported corpus

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Yamaya

山家やまや · 3 morae

4 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.