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Canonical reference record
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Japanese given name

Kimi

きミ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

きみキミKimi
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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 spellings59

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows61

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Kimi

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きみ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formキミ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationKimi

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

Mora segmentationき · み

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

Kanji spellings9

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings3

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

きミ

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
きKana characterミKana character
Kana-only spelling

きみ

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
きKana characterみKana character
Kana-only spelling

キミ

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
キKana characterミKana character
Kanji spelling

亀実

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

亀美

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

伎美

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

公

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

公美

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

吉海

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

君

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

君美

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

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 61. 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 Kimi 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

きみ · きミ · キミ

Kanji-based spellings58

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters2

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae2

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

Kana-only3

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms3

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms55

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

きみ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms59

61 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms11

11 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 60 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
きみKimi5961 source rowsfemale 60 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 58 · unspecified 11111 source rows
きみKimi00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —00 source rows
きみKimi00 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 Kimi

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 data58

4–26 strokes observed span

Median total strokes18

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms57

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Reading ambiguity

Can the same writing be read another way?

38 of 61 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 checked61

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings38

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading21

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set13

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

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 Kimi 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.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
美beauty, beautiful20020009はる, よし, よしみ, りJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
実reality, truth, seed13013008ぐみ, さねJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
紀chronicle, account, narrative770009おさむ, ただす, とし, とも +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
希hope, beg, request660007のぞ, のぞみJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
季seasons550008すえ, としJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
水water303004うず, ずみ, つ, ど +5Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
未un-, not yet, hitherto303005—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
記scribe, account, narrative3300010のりJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
貴precious, value, prize3300012きよ, ぎ, たか, たかし +1Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6
亀tortoise, turtle2200011ひさ, ひさしJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
公public, prince, official210014あきら, き, きみ, きん +5Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
海—2020010—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10

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

きミ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kimiきみ
Characters in order
きKanaミKana
Exact written form

きみ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kimiきみ · this page
Characters in order
きKanaみKana
Exact written form

キミ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kimiきみ
Characters in order
キKanaミKana

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 61. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Kimi 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 Kimi

61 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading きみ. 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.

きミ

きミ · Kimi

Katakana キミMorae 2Strokes —

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

きみ

きみ · Kimi

Katakana キミMorae 2Strokes —

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

キミ

キミ · Kimi

Katakana キミMorae 2Strokes —

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

Spelling comparator

Compare Kimi 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.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
きミきミKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
きみきみKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
キミキミKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
亀実きみ亀 — tortoise, turtle · 実 — reality, truth19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
亀美きみ亀 — tortoise, turtle · 美 — beauty, beautiful20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
伎美きみ伎 — deed, skill · 美 — beauty, beautiful15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
公きみ公 — public, prince4All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
公美きみ公 — public, prince · 美 — beauty, beautiful13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
几水きみ几 — table, table enclosure · 水 — water6Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class
吉海きみ吉 — good luck, joy · 海16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
君きみ君 — mister, you7All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
君美きみ君 — mister, you · 美 — beauty, beautiful16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
喜実きみ喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in · 実 — reality, truth20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
喜美きみ喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in · 美 — beauty, beautiful21All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
嘉美きみ嘉 — applaud, praise · 美 — beauty, beautiful23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
基実きみ基 — fundamentals, radical (chem) · 実 — reality, truth19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified

The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.

What does Kimi 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 きみ

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.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Kimi

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

Miyuki

亀季実希未水紀美記貴

10 shared kanji · 190 matching source-recorded spellings

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Miki

亀季実希未水紀美記貴

10 shared kanji · 147 matching source-recorded spellings

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Kimiko

亀季実希未水紀美記貴

10 shared kanji · 111 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mikiko

亀季実希未水紀美記貴

10 shared kanji · 87 matching source-recorded spellings

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Misaki

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 170 matching source-recorded spellings

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Akimi

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 162 matching source-recorded spellings

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Kiyomi

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 106 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mizuki

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 95 matching source-recorded spellings

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Kimie

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 91 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yukimi

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 83 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mitsuki

季実希未水紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 55 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mikio

亀季実希未紀美記貴

9 shared kanji · 38 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Kimi

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

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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