group-level written forms
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
How to read Aoi
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: Aoi. 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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What can Aoi 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 “Aoi”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
あおい
This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.
あお依
This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.
あをい
This spelling is written only in kana. Because it contains no kanji, there is no kanji meaning to interpret here. The kana record the name’s sound; any personal or cultural meaning would depend on context not supplied by the dictionary.
亜生
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.
亜生衣
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.
亜緒伊
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.
亜緒依
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.
亜緒衣
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.
亜花
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.
亜麻依
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.
亜麻衣
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.
仰
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 126. 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.
How Aoi 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.
あおい · あをい
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
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
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.
あおい in the imported JMnedict corpus
125 source spelling/reading rows
11 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| あおいAoi | 125125 source rows | female 125source rows · distinct forms: female 125 | 1111 source rows |
| あをいAoi | 33 source rows | female 3source rows · distinct forms: female 3 | 00 source rows |
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.
Source-supplied text attached to Aoi records
JMnedict can attach trans_det text to a name-classification block. This may be a Latin spelling, label or descriptor. It is shown only when it adds information beyond this site’s generated romanization.
| Written form | Source reading | JMnedict source text |
|---|---|---|
| あをい | あをい | Awoi |
| 葵 | あをい | Awoi |
| 藍生 | あをい | Awoi |
Meaning boundary: this is text supplied by JMnedict for the associated name-classification block. It is not an inferred kanji meaning, a translation of the written characters as a whole, proof of a person’s preferred Latin spelling, or evidence of popularity.
128 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Corpus structure behind Aoi
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.
4–41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| あおい | Aoi | 3 | 125 |
| あをい | Aoi | 3 | 3 |
Shown only when the same adjacent two-kanji sequence occurs in at least two analyzed source forms. Open a sequence in Kanji Pair Research for corpus co-occurrence context.
Can the same writing be read another way?
27 of 80 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
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.
How recurring characters function across Aoi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 生 | life, genuine, birth | 24 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 5 | あさ, いき, いく, いけ +21 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 衣 | garment, clothes, dressing | 20 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 碧 | blue, green | 18 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | みどり, あお, たま | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 蒼 | blue, pale | 16 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 葵 | hollyhock | 15 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | まもる, け | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 依 | reliant, depend on, consequently | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 8 | よ, より | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 愛 | love, affection, favourite | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | あ, あし, え, かな +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 緒 | thong, beginning, inception | 12 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 14 | ほ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 藍 | indigo | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 青 | blue, green | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | お | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 亜 | Asia, rank next, come after | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | や, つぎ, つぐ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 央 | center, middle | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 5 | あきら, え, お, さと +6 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
Counts describe this source-recorded spelling set, not population use. A repeated kanji can contribute to more than one position role across different spellings.
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.
あおい
あお依
あをい
亜生
The exact sequence 亜生 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
亜生衣
亜緒伊
亜緒依
亜緒衣
亜花
亜麻依
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 126. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Kanji recurring across Aoi 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.
Explore written forms of Aoi
125 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading あおい. 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.
あおい
あおい · Aoi
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
あお依
あおい · Aoi
あをい
あをい · Aoi
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
亜生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
亜生衣
あおい · Aoi
亜緒伊
あおい · Aoi
亜緒依
あおい · Aoi
亜緒衣
あおい · Aoi
亜花
あおい · Aoi
亜麻依
あおい · Aoi
亜麻衣
あおい · Aoi
仰
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
仰日
あおい · Aoi
向葵
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
夏葵
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
安央依
あおい · Aoi
安央維
あおい · Aoi
安於生
あおい · Aoi
安生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
安生衣
あおい · Aoi
安緒衣
あおい · Aoi
彩桜
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
彩生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
愛
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
愛依
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
愛央
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
愛央以
あおい · Aoi
愛央依
あおい · Aoi
愛桜依
あおい · Aoi
愛桜衣
あおい · Aoi
愛生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
愛緒依
あおい · Aoi
愛緒生
あおい · Aoi
愛緒衣
あおい · Aoi
愛織姫
あおい · Aoi
愛音依
あおい · Aoi
扇以
あおい · Aoi
扇依
あおい · Aoi
扇巳
あおい · Aoi
扇衣
あおい · Aoi
文生伊
あおい · Aoi
明桜衣
あおい · Aoi
明生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
明緒衣
あおい · Aoi
明葵
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
晴天
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
暖穂生
あおい · Aoi
杏桜生
あおい · Aoi
杏桜衣
あおい · Aoi
杏緒
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
歩生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
歩緒生
あおい · Aoi
水
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
瑛
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
相生
あおい · Aoi
碧
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
碧乙
あおい · Aoi
碧以
あおい · Aoi
碧依
あおい · Aoi
碧偉
あおい · Aoi
碧唯
あおい · Aoi
碧妃
あおい · Aoi
碧彩
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
碧惟
あおい · Aoi
碧泉
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
碧海
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
碧生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
碧維
あおい · Aoi
碧苺
あおい · Aoi
碧衣
あおい · Aoi
碧音
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
空
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
空生
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
粟生
あおい · Aoi
粟生生
あおい · Aoi
紺碧
あおい · Aoi
翠氷
あおい · Aoi
葵
あおい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
葵
あをい · Aoi
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
葵以
あおい · Aoi
Showing the first 80 spelling/reading records out of 128 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 126 distinct written spellings.
Compare Aoi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| あおい | あおい | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| あお依 | あおい | 依 — reliant, depend on | 8 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| あをい | あをい | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 亜生 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 生 — life, genuine | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜生衣 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 生 — life, genuine · 衣 — garment, clothes | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜緒伊 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 緒 — thong, beginning · 伊 — Italy, that one | 27 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜緒依 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 緒 — thong, beginning · 依 — reliant, depend on | 29 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜緒衣 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 緒 — thong, beginning · 衣 — garment, clothes | 27 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜花 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 花 — flower | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜麻依 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 麻 — hemp, flax · 依 — reliant, depend on | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 亜麻衣 | あおい | 亜 — Asia, rank next · 麻 — hemp, flax · 衣 — garment, clothes | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 仰 | あおい | 仰 — face-up, look up | 6 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 仰日 | あおい | 仰 — face-up, look up · 日 — day, sun | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 向葵 | あおい | 向 — yonder, facing · 葵 — hollyhock | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 夏葵 | あおい | 夏 — summer · 葵 — hollyhock | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 安央依 | あおい | 安 — relax, cheap · 央 — center, middle · 依 — reliant, depend on | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.
What does Aoi 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.
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6 shared kanji · 48 matching source-recorded spellings
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6 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →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.
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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