group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings12 Source spelling/reading rows12 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 Kayu
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: Kayu. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Kayu 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 “Kayu”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
佳侑
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
佳由
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
可侑
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
可有
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
和優
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
夏夕
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
翔優
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
香佑
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
香優
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
香有
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
香柚
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
香水
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
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 Kayu 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.
かゆ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
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.
かゆ in the imported JMnedict corpus
12 source spelling/reading rows
1 source spelling/reading row
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| かゆKayu | 1212 source rows | female 12source rows · distinct forms: female 12 | 11 source row |
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 Kayu
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.
11–29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| かゆ | Kayu | 2 | 12 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
7 of 12 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
香水
和優
6 source-recorded readings
佳由
3 source-recorded readings
夏夕
翔優
2 source-recorded readings
Kayuかゆ · this pageShīmaしいま
香優
2 source-recorded readings
AyuあゆKayuかゆ · this page
香有
2 source-recorded readings
KaoriかおりKayuかゆ · 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 Kayu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 香 | incense, smell, perfume | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | こ, こお, ひゃん, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 優 | tenderness, excel, surpass | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | ゆ, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 佳 | excellent, beautiful, good | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | けい, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 侑 | urge to eat | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | あつむ, すすむ, ゆき, ゆ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 可 | can, passable, approval | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 有 | possess, have, exist | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | あ, あら, あり, ある +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 由 | wherefore, a reason | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 和 | harmony, Japanese style, peace | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | あい, いず, かず, かつ +13 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 夏 | summer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 夕 | evening | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ゆ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 翔 | soar, fly | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | か | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 佑 | help, assist | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | すけ, たすく, ゆ | 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
佳侑
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
佳由
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
可侑
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
可有
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
和優
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
夏夕
Exact written form
翔優
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kayuかゆ · this pageShīmaしいま
Characters in order
Exact written form
香佑
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
香優
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AyuあゆKayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
香有
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KaoriかおりKayuかゆ · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 12. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kayu 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 Kayu
12 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading かゆ. 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.
佳侑
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
佳由
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
可侑
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
可有
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
和優
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
夏夕
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
翔優
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
香佑
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
香優
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
香有
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
香柚
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
香水
かゆ · Kayu
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
Spelling comparator
Compare Kayu 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 佳侑 | かゆ | 佳 — excellent, beautiful · 侑 — urge to eat | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 佳由 | かゆ | 佳 — excellent, beautiful · 由 — wherefore, a reason | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 可侑 | かゆ | 可 — can, passable · 侑 — urge to eat | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 可有 | かゆ | 可 — can, passable · 有 — possess, have | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 和優 | かゆ | 和 — harmony, Japanese style · 優 — tenderness, excel | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 夏夕 | かゆ | 夏 — summer · 夕 — evening | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 翔優 | かゆ | 翔 — soar, fly · 優 — tenderness, excel | 29 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 香佑 | かゆ | 香 — incense, smell · 佑 — help, assist | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 香優 | かゆ | 香 — incense, smell · 優 — tenderness, excel | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 香有 | かゆ | 香 — incense, smell · 有 — possess, have | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 香柚 | かゆ | 香 — incense, smell · 柚 — citron | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 香水 | かゆ | 香 — incense, smell · 水 — water | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Kayu 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 かゆ
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.
Given name · female · limited reference
Kayuki
10 recorded spellings
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8 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKayuri
4 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKayuko
3 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKayuna
3 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Kayu
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
Yukari
佳侑優可和夏夕有由香
10 shared kanji · 153 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYūka
佳侑優可和夏夕有由香
10 shared kanji · 145 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuka
佳侑優可和夏夕有由香
10 shared kanji · 142 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyuka
佳侑優可和夏夕有由香
10 shared kanji · 139 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYukako
佳侑優可和夏夕有由香
10 shared kanji · 69 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYurika
佳侑優可夏夕有由香
9 shared kanji · 109 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMayuka
佳優可和夏夕有由香
9 shared kanji · 83 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYumika
佳侑優夏夕有由香
8 shared kanji · 80 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuika
佳侑優可夏有由香
8 shared kanji · 28 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMiyuka
佳侑優夏夕有由香
8 shared kanji · 23 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYumeka
佳優可夏夕有由香
8 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSayaka
佳優可和夏由香
7 shared kanji · 167 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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