group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Hamako
ハマコ
Given-name classification varies across source records.
はまこハマコHamako
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings14 Source spelling/reading rows15 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 Hamako
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: Hamako. 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 Hamako 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 “Hamako”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
ハマコ
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
ハKana characterマKana characterコKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
ハマ子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
はま子
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
八末子
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
巴舞子
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
波満子
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
浜子
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
濱子
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
破魔子
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
羽舞子
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
羽麻子
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
芳満子
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
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 15. 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 Hamako 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.
はまこ · ハマコ · ハマこ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
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.
はまこ in the imported JMnedict corpus
15 source spelling/reading rows
3 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| はまこHamako | 1415 source rows | female 14 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 13 · unspecified 1 | 33 source rows |
| はまこHamako | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 00 source rows |
| はまこHamako | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 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.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Hamako
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.
3–34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| はまこ | Hamako | 3 | 15 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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.
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
1 of 15 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
濱子
2 source-recorded readings
Hamakoはまこ · this pageHinkoひんこ
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 Hamako 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 子 | child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | い, き, ぎ, く +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 舞 | dance, flit, circle | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 満 | full, fullness, enough | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 12 | ま, みち, みつ, みつる | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 羽 | feathers, counter for birds, rabbits | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | しゅう, ば | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 芳 | perfume, balmy, favorable | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | お, かおる, は, ほ +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 葉 | leaf, plane, lobe | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | よ, わ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 八 | eight, eight radical (no. 12) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | な, は, はっ, やち +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 末 | end, close, tip | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 巴 | comma-design | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | とも | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 波 | waves, billows, Poland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ひら, みな, みなみ, わ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 浜 | seacoast, beach, seashore | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 濱 | beach, sea coast, river bank | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
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
ハマコ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
ハKanaマKanaコKana
Exact written form
ハマ子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ
Characters in order
Exact written form
はま子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
八末子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
巴舞子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
波満子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
浜子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
濱子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this pageHinkoひんこ
Characters in order
Exact written form
破魔子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
羽舞子
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Hamakoはまこ · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 15. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Hamako 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 Hamako
15 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading はまこ. 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.
ハマコ
ハマコ · Hamako
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
ハマ子
ハマこ · Hamako
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
はま子
はまこ · Hamako
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
八末子
はまこ · Hamako
八eight, eight radical (no. 12)末end, close, tip, powder子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
巴舞子
はまこ · Hamako
巴comma-design舞dance, flit, circle, wheel子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
波満子
はまこ · Hamako
波waves, billows, Poland満full, fullness, enough, satisfy子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
浜子
はまこ · Hamako
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
濱子
はまこ · Hamako
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
破魔子
はまこ · Hamako
破rend, rip, tear, break魔witch, demon, evil spirit子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
羽舞子
はまこ · Hamako
羽feathers, counter for birds, rabbits舞dance, flit, circle, wheel子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
羽麻子
はまこ · Hamako
羽feathers, counter for birds, rabbits麻hemp, flax, numb子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芳満子
はまこ · Hamako
芳perfume, balmy, favorable, fragrant満full, fullness, enough, satisfy子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芳真子
はまこ · Hamako
芳perfume, balmy, favorable, fragrant真true, reality, Buddhist sect子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
葉万子
はまこ · Hamako
葉leaf, plane, lobe, needle万ten thousand, 10,000子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
葉舞子
はまこ · Hamako
葉leaf, plane, lobe, needle舞dance, flit, circle, wheel子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Hamako 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ハマコ | ハマコ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| ハマ子 | ハマこ | 子 — child, sign of the rat | 3 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| はま子 | はまこ | 子 — child, sign of the rat | 3 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 八末子 | はまこ | 八 — eight, eight radical (no. 12) · 末 — end, close · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 巴舞子 | はまこ | 巴 — comma-design · 舞 — dance, flit · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 波満子 | はまこ | 波 — waves, billows · 満 — full, fullness · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 浜子 | はまこ | 浜 — seacoast, beach · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 濱子 | はまこ | 濱 — beach, sea coast · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 20 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 破魔子 | はまこ | 破 — rend, rip · 魔 — witch, demon · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 34 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 羽舞子 | はまこ | 羽 — feathers, counter for birds, rabbits · 舞 — dance, flit · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 羽麻子 | はまこ | 羽 — feathers, counter for birds, rabbits · 麻 — hemp, flax · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芳満子 | はまこ | 芳 — perfume, balmy · 満 — full, fullness · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芳真子 | はまこ | 芳 — perfume, balmy · 真 — true, reality · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 葉万子 | はまこ | 葉 — leaf, plane · 万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 葉舞子 | はまこ | 葉 — leaf, plane · 舞 — dance, flit · 子 — child, sign of the rat | 30 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Hamako 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 Hamako
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
Hanako
八子巴波羽芳葉
7 shared kanji · 40 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHana
八子巴波羽芳葉
7 shared kanji · 39 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHatsuko
八子巴波羽芳葉
7 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHaruko
子巴波羽芳葉
6 shared kanji · 40 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMiharu
八巴波満羽葉
6 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHaruka
巴波羽芳葉
5 shared kanji · 29 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipManami
子末波満舞
5 shared kanji · 27 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYasuha
子巴波羽葉
5 shared kanji · 27 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIroha
八巴波羽葉
5 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHazuki
八巴波羽葉
5 shared kanji · 19 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMasumi
子巴末満舞
5 shared kanji · 18 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMana
子末波満舞
5 shared kanji · 17 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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