group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings14 Source spelling/reading rows14 Coverage levelExtended
Extended source depth
This reading group has a comparatively broad dictionary footprint across source-recorded spellings or records. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.
records contributing to this reading group
based only on the imported source footprint
Pronunciation & romanization
How to read Anka
The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.
Normalized to hiragana for comparison.
The same reading converted to katakana.
Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Anka. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
3 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Anka mean?
A Japanese name can be written in more than one way, and its meaning can change with the kanji used. Rather than assigning one English meaning to “Anka”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
安華
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
安香
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏伽
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏佳
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏加
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏可
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏夏
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏果
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏歌
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏華
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
晏香
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
杏夏
These are dictionary meanings for the kanji used in this spelling. Together they can suggest associations, but they do not establish one fixed English translation or a particular person’s naming intent.
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 14. The recorded-spellings section below retains the wider source set.
How to read these meanings
The English words shown here are dictionary meanings of individual kanji. They help explain what a spelling can suggest, but they are not a guaranteed translation of the full name and do not establish why a particular person was given that name.
Reading profile
How Anka is represented
These counts describe records in the imported name corpus. They are not a ranking of how popular a spelling is among people in Japan.
あんか
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spellings
JMnedict classification evidence
How this reading is classified in the source corpus
This separates dictionary classification from popularity. The same exact kana reading can be recorded as a given name, a surname, or both, and given-name records can carry male, female or unspecified source labels.
あんか in the imported JMnedict corpus
14 source spelling/reading rows
0 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| あんかAnka | 1414 source rows | female 14source rows · distinct forms: female 14 | 00 source rows |
| あんがAnga | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 11 source row |
Classification boundary: male/female/unspecified are labels attached to imported JMnedict name records. They are not population shares, probabilities, identity claims, or evidence that a spelling is currently common in Japan. A source row can also be repeated across different written forms, so row counts and distinct-writing counts are shown separately.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Anka
This section summarizes the exact source-recorded forms loaded for this reading group. Stroke and character-position statistics are descriptive corpus properties, not popularity or style scores.
15–24 strokes observed span
among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data
all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes
contains at least one character outside that loaded classification
| Reading | Romanization | Morae | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| あんか | Anka | 3 | 14 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
9 of 14 displayed written forms have more than one given-name reading somewhere in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.
distinct spellings displayed on this page
exact written forms with 2+ source readings
within this active given-name corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
杏香
杏夏
5 source-recorded readings
安香
杏果
安華
2 source-recorded readings
AsukaあすかAnkaあんか · this page
晏佳
2 source-recorded readings
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
晏加
2 source-recorded readings
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
晏歌
2 source-recorded readings
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
A reading shown without a link is still source-recorded, but its destination group does not yet meet the reference-depth standard used for the main library. Limited records are not promoted merely to create extra internal links.
Kanji role reference
How recurring characters function across Anka spellings
Position counts are calculated only from the distinct written forms analyzed for this page. KANJIDIC2 nanori are character-level name-reading references; they are not used here to decompose or assert the reading of a specific multi-kanji name.
| Kanji | Character glosses | Forms | First | Final | Internal | Solo | Strokes | KANJIDIC2 nanori | Loaded class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 晏 | late, quiet, sets (sun) | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 香 | incense, smell, perfume | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | こ, こお, ひゃん, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 杏 | apricot | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | りょう | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 安 | relax, cheap, low | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | あ, あす, あず, あっ +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 華 | splendor, flower, petal | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | わ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 夏 | summer | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 果 | fruit, reward, carry out | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 伽 | nursing, attending, entertainer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 佳 | excellent, beautiful, good | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | けい, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 加 | add, addition, increase | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 可 | can, passable, approval | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 歌 | song, sing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.
Exact writing research map
Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context
These relationships are exact and source-backed. Whole-name readings shown in each card come from JMnedict within the current name class; exact-writing search can surface records from other name classes. Character links open KANJIDIC2-backed kanji pages. Sequence context means the same kanji string occurs contiguously in another recorded written form—it does not prove shared origin or meaning.
Exact written form
安華
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AsukaあすかAnkaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 安華 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
安香
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 安香 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
晏伽
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏佳
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏加
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏可
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏夏
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏果
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏歌
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this pageHarukaはるか
Characters in order
Exact written form
晏華
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Ankaあんか · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 14. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Anka spellings
Only characters appearing in at least two distinct analyzed spellings are shown here. Frequency describes this source-recorded spelling set, not real-world baby-name popularity.
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Anka
14 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading あんか. Other source readings can appear in this romanized group when the imported records converge on the same index form. Use Compare to inspect exact spellings side by side.
安華
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
安香
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
晏伽
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
晏佳
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
晏加
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
晏可
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
晏夏
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
晏果
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
晏歌
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
晏華
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
晏香
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
杏夏
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
杏果
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
杏香
あんか · Anka
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
Spelling comparator
Compare Anka forms side by side
Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.
| Spelling | One source reading | Character-level glosses | Total strokes | Loaded character class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 安華 | あんか | 安 — relax, cheap · 華 — splendor, flower | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 安香 | あんか | 安 — relax, cheap · 香 — incense, smell | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏伽 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 伽 — nursing, attending | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏佳 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 佳 — excellent, beautiful | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏加 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 加 — add, addition | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏可 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 可 — can, passable | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏夏 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 夏 — summer | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏果 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 果 — fruit, reward | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏歌 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 歌 — song, sing | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏華 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 華 — splendor, flower | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晏香 | あんか | 晏 — late, quiet · 香 — incense, smell | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 杏夏 | あんか | 杏 — apricot · 夏 — summer | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 杏果 | あんか | 杏 — apricot · 果 — fruit, reward | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 杏香 | あんか | 杏 — apricot · 香 — incense, smell | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Anka mean?
There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.
Related readings
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Anka
These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.
Given-name relationship
Asaka
伽佳加夏安晏杏果華香
10 shared kanji · 186 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyaka
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 232 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkari
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 156 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyuka
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 150 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHaruka
伽佳加夏安晏果華香
9 shared kanji · 143 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkane
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 75 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAmika
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 69 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAika
伽佳加夏安杏果華香
9 shared kanji · 57 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSayaka
伽佳加夏安果華香
8 shared kanji · 251 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuka
伽佳加夏杏果華香
8 shared kanji · 118 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAsuka
佳加夏安杏果華香
8 shared kanji · 110 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShizuka
伽佳加夏晏果華香
8 shared kanji · 72 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Evidence on this page
What each source establishes
JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.
Source boundary
The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.
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