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ReferenceNamesHirofumi
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name

Hirofumi

公文

Given-name classification varies across source records.

ひろふみヒロフミHirofumi
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Reference coverage

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.

Distinct recorded spellings42

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows42

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Hirofumi

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingひろふみ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formヒロフミ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationHirofumi

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Hirofumi. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationひ · ろ · ふ · み

4 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

Audio note: the play button uses Japanese text-to-speech provided by the visitor’s browser/device. It is a convenience preview, not a recorded native-speaker pronunciation or pitch-accent authority.

Meaning by written form

What can Hirofumi 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 “Hirofumi”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings12

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings0

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kanji spelling

公文

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.

Kanji spelling

博典

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.

Kanji spelling

博史

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.

Kanji spelling

博文

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.

Kanji spelling

厚文

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.

Kanji spelling

啓史

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

啓文

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.

Kanji spelling

大史

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

大文

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

奉文

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.

Kanji spelling

宏典

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

宏史

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 42. 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 Hirofumi 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.

Recorded kana readings1

ひろふみ

Kanji-based spellings42

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters4

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae4

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

2-kanji forms40

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms2

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.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name

ひろふみ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms45

57 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsmale 3 · unspecified 54

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
ひろふみHirofumi4557 source rowsmale 3 · unspecified 54source rows · distinct forms: male 3 · unspecified 4200 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 Hirofumi

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.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data42

7–25 strokes observed span

Median total strokes15

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms38

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms4

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

34 of 42 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.

Written forms checked42

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings34

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading8

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set6

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.

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Hirofumi 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.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
文sentence, literature, style20020004かざり, ふ, もJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
史history, chronicle15015005あきら, あや, お, こ +7Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
弘vast, broad, wide550005ひろ, ひろし, ひろむ, みつ +2Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
典code, ceremony, law404008すけ, つね, のJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
博Dr., command, esteem3300012ぐれ, と, はか, ひろJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
宏wide, large330007あつ, ひろ, ひろしJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
洋ocean, sea, foreign330009なだ, ひろ, ひろし, よ +1Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
啓disclose, open, say2200011あき, あきら, さとし, はじめ +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
大large, big220003うふ, お, おう, た +9Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
寛tolerant, leniency, generosity2200013とも, のぶ, のり, ひろし +3Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
尋inquire, fathom, look for2200012ず, つぐJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
広wide, broad, spacious220005—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.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 42. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Hirofumi 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 Hirofumi

42 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ひろふみ. 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.

Spelling comparator

Compare Hirofumi 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.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
公文ひろふみ公 — public, prince · 文 — sentence, literature8All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
博典ひろふみ博 — Dr., command · 典 — code, ceremony20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
博史ひろふみ博 — Dr., command · 史 — history, chronicle17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
博文ひろふみ博 — Dr., command · 文 — sentence, literature16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
厚文ひろふみ厚 — thick, heavy · 文 — sentence, literature13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
啓史ひろふみ啓 — disclose, open · 史 — history, chronicle16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
啓文ひろふみ啓 — disclose, open · 文 — sentence, literature15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
大史ひろふみ大 — large, big · 史 — history, chronicle8All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
大文ひろふみ大 — large, big · 文 — sentence, literature7All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
奉文ひろふみ奉 — observance, offer · 文 — sentence, literature12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
宏典ひろふみ宏 — wide, large · 典 — code, ceremony15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
宏史ひろふみ宏 — wide, large · 史 — history, chronicle12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
宏文ひろふみ宏 — wide, large · 文 — sentence, literature11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
寛史ひろふみ寛 — tolerant, leniency · 史 — history, chronicle18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
寛文ひろふみ寛 — tolerant, leniency · 文 — sentence, literature17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
尋史ひろふみ尋 — inquire, fathom · 史 — history, chronicle17All 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 Hirofumi 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

More names beginning with ひろ

Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Hirofumi

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

Hiromi

博史啓大宏寛弘文洋

9 shared kanji · 79 matching source-recorded spellings

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Motohiro

博史啓大宏寛弘文洋

9 shared kanji · 25 matching source-recorded spellings

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Hiroshi

博史啓大宏寛弘洋

8 shared kanji · 96 matching source-recorded spellings

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Masahiro

博史啓大宏寛弘洋

8 shared kanji · 87 matching source-recorded spellings

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Hironori

典博啓大宏寛弘洋

8 shared kanji · 56 matching source-recorded spellings

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Hiroyuki

博啓大宏寛弘文洋

8 shared kanji · 48 matching source-recorded spellings

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Hiromichi

典博啓大宏寛弘洋

8 shared kanji · 31 matching source-recorded spellings

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Chihiro

博史啓大宏寛弘洋

8 shared kanji · 20 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yoshihiro

博啓大宏寛弘洋

7 shared kanji · 137 matching source-recorded spellings

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Akihiro

博啓大宏寛弘洋

7 shared kanji · 68 matching source-recorded spellings

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Hiroaki

博啓大宏寛弘洋

7 shared kanji · 67 matching source-recorded spellings

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Takahiro

博啓大宏寛弘洋

7 shared kanji · 64 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Hirofumi

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

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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