Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Ikuyo

いくよ

Female-classified given-name records.

いくよイクヨIkuyo

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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 spellings116

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows118

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Ikuyo

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いくよ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formイクヨ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationIkuyo

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

Mora segmentationい · く · よ

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 Ikuyo 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 “Ikuyo”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings10

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings2

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

いくよ

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

いKana characterくKana characterよKana character

Kana-only spelling

イクヨ

Characters and loaded glosses

イKana characterクKana characterヨKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

いく世

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

いKana characterくKana character世generation, world, society

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

いく代

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

いKana characterくKana character代substitute, change, convert

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

イク代

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

イKana characterクKana character代substitute, change, convert

Kanji spelling

井久世

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

井well, well crib, town久long time, old story世generation, world, society

Kanji spelling

井久代

Characters and loaded glosses

井well, well crib, town久long time, old story代substitute, change, convert

Kanji spelling

井玖世

Characters and loaded glosses

井well, well crib, town玖beautiful black jewel, nine世generation, world, society

Kanji spelling

井玖代

Characters and loaded glosses

井well, well crib, town玖beautiful black jewel, nine代substitute, change, convert

Kanji spelling

亥久代

Characters and loaded glosses

亥sign of the hog, 9-11PM, twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac久long time, old story代substitute, change, convert

Kanji spelling

亥玖世

Characters and loaded glosses

亥sign of the hog, 9-11PM, twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac玖beautiful black jewel, nine世generation, world, society

Kanji spelling

亥玖代

Characters and loaded glosses

亥sign of the hog, 9-11PM, twelfth sign of the Chinese zodiac玖beautiful black jewel, nine代substitute, change, convert

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 118. 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 Ikuyo 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 readings3

いくよ · イクヨ · イクよ

Kanji-based spellings116

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters3

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae3

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

Kana-only2

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms3

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms32

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms81

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 + surname

いくよ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms116

118 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms1

1 source spelling/reading row

Given-name labelsfemale 118

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
いくよIkuyo	116118 source rows	female 118source rows · distinct forms: female 116	11 source row
いくよIkuyo	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	00 source rows
いくよIkuyo	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 Ikuyo

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 data116

5–29 strokes observed span

Median total strokes18

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms116

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
いくよ	Ikuyo	3	118

Recurring first-position kanji

郁cultural progress, perfume9 forms 以by means of, because8 forms 伊Italy, that one8 forms 依reliant, depend on8 forms 委committee, entrust to8 forms 惟consider, reflect8 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

代substitute, change53 forms 世generation, world48 forms 与bestow, participate in3 forms 夜night, evening2 forms 予beforehand, previous2 forms 弥all the more, increasingly1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

久代13 analyzed forms 玖世13 analyzed forms 玖代13 analyzed forms 久世10 analyzed forms 句世8 analyzed forms 句代8 analyzed forms

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?

2 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.

Written forms checked80

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings2

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading76

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set2

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

侑世

2 source-recorded readings

Ikuyoいくよ · this pageYukiyoゆきよ

如代

2 source-recorded readings

Ikuyoいくよ · this pageYukiyoゆきよ

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 Ikuyo 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	Strokes	KANJIDIC2 nanori	Loaded class
代	substitute, change, convert	53	0	53	0	5	す	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
世	generation, world, society	48	0	48	0	5	とし, ゆ, ゆき	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
玖	beautiful black jewel, nine	26	0	0	26	7	たま, き, ひさ	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
久	long time, old story	23	0	0	23	3	きゅ, わ, なが, ひさ +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
句	phrase, clause, sentence	16	0	0	16	5	すく	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
矩	ruler, carpenter's square	16	0	0	16	10	のり, つね, ただし	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
郁	cultural progress, perfume	9	9	0	0	9	あや, かおる, い, か +2	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
以	by means of, because, in view of	8	8	0	0	5	もち	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
伊	Italy, that one	8	8	0	0	6	これ, ただ, よし, いと +1	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
依	reliant, depend on, consequently	8	8	0	0	8	よ, より	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
委	committee, entrust to, leave to	8	8	0	0	8	まかせ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
惟	consider, reflect, think	8	8	0	0	11	ただ, よし, のぶ	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9

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

いくよ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

いKanaくKanaよKana

Exact written form

イクヨ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ

Characters in order

イKanaクKanaヨKana

Exact written form

いく世

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

いKanaくKana世generation, world

Exact written form

いく代

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

いKanaくKana代substitute, change

Exact written form

イク代

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ

Characters in order

イKanaクKana代substitute, change

Exact written form

井久世

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

井well, well crib久long time, old story世generation, world

Exact written form

井久代

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

井well, well crib久long time, old story代substitute, change

Exact written form

井玖世

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

井well, well crib玖beautiful black jewel, nine世generation, world

Exact written form

井玖代

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

井well, well crib玖beautiful black jewel, nine代substitute, change

Exact written form

亥久代

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Ikuyoいくよ · this page

Characters in order

亥sign of the hog, 9-11PM久long time, old story代substitute, change

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 118. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Ikuyo 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 Ikuyo

118 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading いくよ. 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.

いくよ

いくよ · Ikuyo

Katakana イクヨMorae 3Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

Character-set checkKana spelling

Ikuyo

Extended source depth

How to read Ikuyo

What can Ikuyo mean?

いくよ

イクヨ

いく世

いく代

イク代

井久世

井久代

井玖世

井玖代

亥久代

亥玖世

亥玖代

How to read these meanings

How Ikuyo is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Ikuyo

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Ikuyo spellings

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

いくよ

イクヨ

いく世

いく代

イク代

井久世

井久代

井玖世

井玖代

亥久代

Kanji recurring across Ikuyo spellings

Explore written forms of Ikuyo

いくよ

イクヨ

いく世

いく代

イク代

井久世

井久代

井玖世

井玖代

亥久代

亥玖世

亥玖代

以久世

以久代

以句世

以句代

以玖世

以玖代

以矩世

以矩代

伊久世

伊久代

伊句世

伊句代

伊玖世

伊玖代

伊矩世

伊矩代

侑世

依久世

依久代

依句世

依句代

依玖世

依玖代

依矩世

依矩代

偉久代

偉玖世

偉玖代

如代

委久世

委久代

委句世

委句代