Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Kahori

かほり

Given-name classification varies across source records.

かほりカホリKahori

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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 spellings53

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows54

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Kahori

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かほり

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formカホリ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationKahori

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

Mora segmentationか · ほ · り

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 Kahori 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 “Kahori”, 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

かほり

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

かKana characterほKana characterりKana character

Kana-only spelling

カホリ

Characters and loaded glosses

カKana characterホKana characterリKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

かほ律

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

かKana characterほKana character律rhythm, law, regulation

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

かほ李

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

かKana characterほKana character李plum

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

かほ梨

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

かKana characterほKana character梨pear tree

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

かほ莉

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

かKana characterほKana character莉jasmine

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

かほ里

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

かKana characterほKana character里ri, village, parent's home

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

か本り

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

かKana character本book, present, mainりKana character

Kanji spelling

佳保利

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

佳excellent, beautiful, good保protect, guarantee, keep利profit, advantage, benefit

Kanji spelling

佳保梨

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good保protect, guarantee, keep梨pear tree

Kanji spelling

佳保理

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good保protect, guarantee, keep理logic, arrangement, reason

Kanji spelling

佳保里

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good保protect, guarantee, keep里ri, village, parent's home

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 54. 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 Kahori 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 readings2

かほり · カホリ

Kanji-based spellings52

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 forms7

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms43

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

かほり in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms53

54 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms2

3 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 53 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
かほりKahori	5354 source rows	female 53 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 52 · unspecified 1	23 source rows
かほりKahori	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.

JMnedict source text

Source-supplied text attached to Kahori 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
かほり	かほり	Kaori

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.

54 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Kahori

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 data52

5–36 strokes observed span

Median total strokes25

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms52

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
かほり	Kahori	3	54

Recurring first-position kanji

香incense, smell18 forms 佳excellent, beautiful11 forms 加add, addition3 forms 可can, passable2 forms 夏summer2 forms 歌song, sing2 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

里ri, village18 forms 梨pear tree10 forms 理logic, arrangement9 forms 利profit, advantage6 forms 莉jasmine3 forms 律rhythm, law1 form

One-character kanji forms

郁cultural progress, perfume1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

香穂5 analyzed forms 佳保4 analyzed forms 保里4 analyzed forms 帆里4 analyzed forms 佳穂4 analyzed forms 香帆4 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?

17 of 54 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 checked54

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings17

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading36

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set11

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

郁

11 source-recorded readings

Ayaあや Ikuいく Kaoriかおり KaoruかおるKahoriかほり · this pageKaoruかをる

香里

5 source-recorded readings

Kaoriかおり KagariかがりKahoriかほり · this pageKariかり Misatoみさと

風薫

3 source-recorded readings

Kahoriかほり · this pageSatsukiさつき Fuyukiふゆき

かほ里

2 source-recorded readings

KaoriかおりKahoriかほり · this page

佳保理

2 source-recorded readings

KaoriかおりKahoriかほり · this page

佳保里

2 source-recorded readings

KaoriかおりKahoriかほり · this page

佳帆里

2 source-recorded readings

KaoruかおるKahoriかほり · this page

佳穂理

2 source-recorded readings

KaoriかおりKahoriかほり · this page

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 Kahori 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
里	ri, village, parent's home	18	0	18	0	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
香	incense, smell, perfume	18	18	0	0	9	こ, こお, ひゃん, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
穂	ear, ear (grain), head	12	0	0	12	15	お, こう, のり, ほい	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
佳	excellent, beautiful, good	11	11	0	0	8	けい, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
梨	pear tree	10	0	10	0	11	か	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
保	protect, guarantee, keep	10	0	0	10	9	う, お, ぶ, もり +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
帆	sail	10	0	0	10	6	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
理	logic, arrangement, reason	9	0	9	0	11	あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
歩	walk, counter for steps	8	0	0	8	8	あ, ゆき, ゆみ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
利	profit, advantage, benefit	6	0	6	0	7	かが, と, とし, のり +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
莉	jasmine	3	0	3	0	10	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
加	add, addition, increase	3	3	0	0	5	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4

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

かほり

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKanaりKana

Exact written form

カホリ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり

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カKanaホKanaリKana

Exact written form

かほ律

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKana律rhythm, law

Exact written form

かほ李

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKana李plum

Exact written form

かほ梨

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKana梨pear tree

Exact written form

かほ莉

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKana莉jasmine

Exact written form

かほ里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

KaoriかおりKahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKanaほKana里ri, village

Exact written form

か本り

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

かKana本book, presentりKana

Exact written form

佳保利

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful保protect, guarantee利profit, advantage

Exact written form

佳保梨

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kahoriかほり · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful保protect, guarantee梨pear tree

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 54. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Kahori 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.

里ri, village, parent's home18 of 54 analyzed forms 香incense, smell, perfume18 of 54 analyzed forms 穂ear, ear (grain), head12 of 54 analyzed forms 佳excellent, beautiful, good11 of 54 analyzed forms 梨pear tree10 of 54 analyzed forms 保protect, guarantee, keep10 of 54 analyzed forms 帆sail10 of 54 analyzed forms 理logic, arrangement, reason9 of 54 analyzed forms 歩walk, counter for steps8 of 54 analyzed forms 利profit, advantage, benefit6 of 54 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Kahori

54 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading かほり. 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.

かほり

かほり · Kahori

Katakana カホリMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Kahori

Extended source depth

How to read Kahori

What can Kahori mean?

かほり

カホリ

かほ律

かほ李

かほ梨

かほ莉

かほ里

か本り

佳保利

佳保梨

佳保理

佳保里

How to read these meanings

How Kahori is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Kahori records

Corpus structure behind Kahori

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Kahori spellings

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

かほり

カホリ

かほ律

かほ李

かほ梨

かほ莉

かほ里

か本り

佳保利

佳保梨

Kanji recurring across Kahori spellings

Explore written forms of Kahori

かほり

カホリ

かほ律

かほ李

かほ梨

かほ莉

かほ里

か本り

佳保利

佳保梨

佳保理

佳保里

佳帆里

佳朋里

佳歩理

佳穂利

佳穂梨

佳穂理

佳穂里

加保里

加帆里

加穂理

可帆里

可歩梨

夏帆理

夏穂梨

歌保梨

歌帆璃

神歩莉

花帆梨

花甫里

華歩里

華穂里

郁

風薫

香保利

香保理

香保里

香帆利

香帆梨

香帆理

香帆里

香歩利

香歩梨