group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Kenjō
堅丈
Given-name gender label not specified in these source records.
けんじょうケンジョウKenjō
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings10 Source spelling/reading rows10 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 Kenjō
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: Kenjou. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
4 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Kenjō 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 “Kenjō”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
堅丈
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
建城
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
憲定
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
憲成
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
憲生
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
謙誠
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
謙譲
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
謙錠
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
賢譲
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
顕誠
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 Kenjō 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.
けんじょう
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.
けんじょう in the imported JMnedict corpus
0 source spelling/reading rows
36 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| げんしょうGenshō | 5555 source rows | unspecified 55source rows · distinct forms: unspecified 55 | 00 source rows |
| けんじょうKenjō | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 3636 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 Kenjō
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.
15–37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| けんじょう | Kenjō | 4 | 10 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
2 of 10 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
憲生
3 source-recorded readings
憲成
2 source-recorded readings
Kenjōけんじょう · this pageKenseiけんせい
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 Kenjō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 憲 | constitution, law | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | かず, のり, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 謙 | self-effacing, humble oneself, condescend | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | かね, ゆずる | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 誠 | sincerity, admonish, warn | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | きよ, さと, しげ, とも +4 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 譲 | defer, turnover, transfer | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | ゆずり | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 堅 | strict, hard, solid | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | きん | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 丈 | length, ten shaku, measure | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | とも, ますら | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 建 | build | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | たけ, たつ, たて | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 城 | castle | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | いく, がき, き, くに +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 定 | determine, fix, establish | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | さた | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 成 | turn into, become, get | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | あき, あきら, しげ, そん +9 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 生 | life, genuine, birth | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | あさ, いき, いく, いけ +21 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 錠 | lock, fetters, shackles | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | — | 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
堅丈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
建城
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Exact written form
憲定
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
憲成
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this pageKenseiけんせい
Characters in order
Exact written form
憲生
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
謙誠
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
謙譲
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
謙錠
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
賢譲
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
顕誠
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kenjōけんじょう · this page
Characters in order
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kenjō 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 Kenjō
10 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading けんじょう. 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.
堅丈
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
建城
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
憲定
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
憲成
けんじょう · Kenjō
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.
憲生
けんじょう · Kenjō
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.
謙誠
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
謙譲
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
謙錠
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
賢譲
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
顕誠
けんじょう · Kenjō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Kenjō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 堅丈 | けんじょう | 堅 — strict, hard · 丈 — length, ten shaku | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 建城 | けんじょう | 建 — build · 城 — castle | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 憲定 | けんじょう | 憲 — constitution, law · 定 — determine, fix | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 憲成 | けんじょう | 憲 — constitution, law · 成 — turn into, become | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 憲生 | けんじょう | 憲 — constitution, law · 生 — life, genuine | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 謙誠 | けんじょう | 謙 — self-effacing, humble oneself · 誠 — sincerity, admonish | 30 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 謙譲 | けんじょう | 謙 — self-effacing, humble oneself · 譲 — defer, turnover | 37 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 謙錠 | けんじょう | 謙 — self-effacing, humble oneself · 錠 — lock, fetters | 33 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 賢譲 | けんじょう | 賢 — intelligent, wise · 譲 — defer, turnover | 36 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 顕誠 | けんじょう | 顕 — appear, existing · 誠 — sincerity, admonish | 31 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Kenjō 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.
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Kenjō
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
Jōji
丈城定成誠譲
6 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipJōtarō
丈城定成譲
5 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKenji
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 37 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKennosuke
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 32 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipJōnosuke
丈城誠譲
4 shared kanji · 26 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKenichirō
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKenjirō
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKensuke
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYoshinori
憲誠謙譲
4 shared kanji · 20 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMasanori
憲成誠謙
4 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKentarō
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKenzō
堅建憲謙
4 shared kanji · 13 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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