Corpus composition research

Kanji Pair Research

Enter one kanji to discover other characters recorded in the same JMnedict name spellings, or enter two kanji to inspect that exact co-occurrence. Every count in this research view describes the imported corpus—not population popularity in Japan.

佐

Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 · 7 strokes

assistant, help

也

Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 · 3 strokes

to be (classical)

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Source rows containing both8

Distinct written forms8

Given-name readings4

Surname readings0

Adjacent 佐也 forms8

Adjacent 也佐 forms0

Recorded names

Name readings containing both characters

The pair only has to occur in the same written form; the two kanji are not required to be adjacent unless counted in the adjacency statistics above.

Given name

佐也佳

Sayaka

さやか

4 source-recorded spellings in this reading group contain both 佐 and 也Given name

満佐也

Masaya

まさや

2 source-recorded spellings in this reading group contain both 佐 and 也Given name

佐也子

Sayako

さやこ

1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 佐 and 也Given name

伊佐也

Izaya

いざや

1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 佐 and 也

Evidence boundary

Co-occurrence is not popularity or etymology

The pair relation comes from exact JMnedict source rows through the compact kanji-usage index. KANJIDIC2 contributes character metadata only. A high corpus count can reflect dictionary coverage and should not be read as a national usage frequency.