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.
元
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 · 4 strokes
枝beginning, former time, origin
Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 · 8 strokes
Find exact-kanji names →bough, branch, twig
Sparse evidence: this pair occurs in fewer than two distinct written forms in the active corpus. Treat it as a recorded example, not an established pattern.
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
元枝
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 元 and 枝Given nameYoshie
よしえ
元枝
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 元 and 枝Given nameYukie
ゆきえ
元枝
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 元 and 枝Given nameMasae
まさえ
元枝
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 元 and 枝Given nameHarue
はるえ
元枝
1 source-recorded spelling in this reading group contain both 元 and 枝Motoe
もとえ
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.