Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Karina

かりな

Female-classified given-name records.

かりなカリナKarina

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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 spellings40

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows41

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Karina

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かりな

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formカリナ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationKarina

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

Mora segmentationか · り · な

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 Karina 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 “Karina”, 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

かりな

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りKana characterなKana character

Kana-only spelling

カリナ

Characters and loaded glosses

カKana characterリKana characterナKana character

Kanji spelling

佳李那

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李plum那what?

Kanji spelling

佳理奈

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good理logic, arrangement, reason奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

佳里奈

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good里ri, village, parent's home奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

佳鈴奈

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good鈴small bell, buzzer奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

佳麗奈

Characters and loaded glosses

佳excellent, beautiful, good麗lovely, beautiful, graceful奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

刈菜

Characters and loaded glosses

刈reap, cut, clip菜vegetable, side dish, greens

Kanji spelling

加里奈

Characters and loaded glosses

加add, addition, increase里ri, village, parent's home奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

可李奈

Characters and loaded glosses

可can, passable, approval李plum奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

可梨奈

Characters and loaded glosses

可can, passable, approval梨pear tree奈Nara, what?

Kanji spelling

可莉奈

Characters and loaded glosses

可can, passable, approval莉jasmine奈Nara, what?

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 41. 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 Karina 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

かりな · カリナ · かりぃな

Kanji-based spellings39

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

2-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms37

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

かりな in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms39

40 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms4

4 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 40

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
かりぃなKarina	11 source row	female 1source rows · distinct forms: female 1	00 source rows
かりなKarina	3940 source rows	female 40source rows · distinct forms: female 39	44 source rows
かりなKarina	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 Karina 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
狩稲	かりぃな	Kariina

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.

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

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Karina

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 data39

15–35 strokes observed span

Median total strokes26

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms39

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
かりな	Karina	3	40
かりぃな	Karina	3	1

Recurring first-position kanji

華splendor, flower7 forms 香incense, smell7 forms 佳excellent, beautiful5 forms 花flower5 forms 可can, passable4 forms 夏summer3 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

奈Nara, what?27 forms菜vegetable, side dish6 forms 那what?3 forms七seven1 form 南south1 form 稲rice plant1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

里奈8 analyzed forms 梨奈6 analyzed forms 理奈3 analyzed forms 李奈3 analyzed forms 莉奈3 analyzed forms 夏里2 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?

1 of 41 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 checked41

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings1

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading39

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set2

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

狩稲

2 source-recorded readings

KarīnaかりーなKarinaかりぃな · 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 Karina 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
奈	Nara, what?	27	0	27	0	8	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
里	ri, village, parent's home	12	0	0	12	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
梨	pear tree	8	0	0	8	11	か	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
華	splendor, flower, petal	7	7	0	0	10	わ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
香	incense, smell, perfume	7	7	0	0	9	こ, こお, ひゃん, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
菜	vegetable, side dish, greens	6	0	6	0	11	よう	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
佳	excellent, beautiful, good	5	5	0	0	8	けい, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
莉	jasmine	5	0	0	5	10	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
花	flower	5	5	0	0	7	わ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
李	plum	4	0	0	4	7	もも, い	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
可	can, passable, approval	4	4	0	0	5	よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
那	what?	3	0	3	0	7	とも, やす	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8

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

かりな

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

かKanaりKanaなKana

Exact written form

カリナ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな

Characters in order

カKanaリKanaナKana

Exact written form

佳李那

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful李plum那what?

Exact written form

佳理奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful理logic, arrangement奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

佳里奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful里ri, village奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

佳鈴奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful鈴small bell, buzzer奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

佳麗奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

佳excellent, beautiful麗lovely, beautiful奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

刈菜

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

刈reap, cut菜vegetable, side dish

Exact written form

加里奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

加add, addition里ri, village奈Nara, what?

Exact written form

可李奈

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Karinaかりな · this page

Characters in order

可can, passable李plum奈Nara, what?

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 41. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Karina 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.

奈Nara, what?27 of 41 analyzed forms里ri, village, parent's home12 of 41 analyzed forms 梨pear tree8 of 41 analyzed forms 華splendor, flower, petal7 of 41 analyzed forms 香incense, smell, perfume7 of 41 analyzed forms 菜vegetable, side dish, greens6 of 41 analyzed forms 佳excellent, beautiful, good5 of 41 analyzed forms 莉jasmine5 of 41 analyzed forms 花flower5 of 41 analyzed forms 李plum4 of 41 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Karina

40 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading かりな. 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.

かりな

かりな · Karina

Katakana カリナMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Karina

Extended source depth

How to read Karina

What can Karina mean?

かりな

カリナ

佳李那

佳理奈

佳里奈

佳鈴奈

佳麗奈

刈菜

加里奈

可李奈

可梨奈

可莉奈

How to read these meanings

How Karina is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Karina records

Corpus structure behind Karina

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Karina spellings

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

かりな

カリナ

佳李那

佳理奈

佳里奈

佳鈴奈

佳麗奈

刈菜

加里奈

可李奈

Kanji recurring across Karina spellings

Explore written forms of Karina

かりな

カリナ

佳李那

佳理奈

佳里奈

佳鈴奈

佳麗奈

刈菜

加里奈

可李奈

可梨奈

可莉奈

可里奈

夏梨奈

夏里七

夏里南

桂里奈

歌莉奈

歌里那

海梨奈

狩稲

花利奈

花梨奈

花梨菜

花莉菜

花里奈

華李奈

華梨奈

華梨菜

華理奈

華璃那

華莉奈

華里奈

風里奈

香利奈

香李奈

香梨奈

香理奈

香莉菜

香里奈

香里菜

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What does Karina mean?

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