Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Kimio

きみを

Recorded with both male and female given-name labels across dictionary entries.

きみおキミオKimio

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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 spellings67

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows67

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Kimio

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きみお

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formキミオ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationKimio

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

Mora segmentationき · み · お

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

Kanji spellings11

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings1

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

きみを

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をKana character

Kanji spelling

上雄

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

上above, up雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

乙未生

Characters and loaded glosses

乙the latter, duplicate, strange未un-, not yet, hitherto生life, genuine, birth

Kanji spelling

乾夫

Characters and loaded glosses

乾drought, dry, desiccate夫husband, man

Kanji spelling

乾雄

Characters and loaded glosses

乾drought, dry, desiccate雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

亀三男

Characters and loaded glosses

亀tortoise, turtle三three男male

Kanji spelling

亀三雄

Characters and loaded glosses

亀tortoise, turtle三three雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

仁夫

Characters and loaded glosses

仁humanity, virtue, benevolence夫husband, man

Kanji spelling

仁男

Characters and loaded glosses

仁humanity, virtue, benevolence男male

Kanji spelling

仁雄

Characters and loaded glosses

仁humanity, virtue, benevolence雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

伎三男

Characters and loaded glosses

伎deed, skill三three男male

Kanji spelling

公勇

Characters and loaded glosses

公public, prince, official勇courage, cheer up, be in high spirits

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 67. 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 Kimio 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

きみお · きみを

Kanji-based spellings66

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-only1

recorded spelling

2-kanji forms22

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms44

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

きみお in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms66

66 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms1

1 source spelling/reading row

Given-name labelsmale 2 · female 2 · unspecified 62

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
きみおKimio	6666 source rows	male 2 · female 2 · unspecified 62source rows · distinct forms: male 2 · female 2 · unspecified 62	11 source row
きみをKimio	11 source row	female 1source rows · distinct forms: female 1	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 Kimio 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
きみを	きみを	Kimiwo

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.

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

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Kimio

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 data66

8–40 strokes observed span

Median total strokes20

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms64

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms2

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
きみお	Kimio	3	66
きみを	Kimio	3	1

Recurring first-position kanji

公public, prince11 forms 喜rejoice, take pleasure in11 forms 紀chronicle, account7 forms 君mister, you6 forms 希hope, beg4 forms 貴precious, value4 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

雄masculine, male16 forms 夫husband, man15 forms 男male15 forms 生life, genuine10 forms 郎son, counter for sons3 forms 勇courage, cheer up1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

美夫6 analyzed forms 喜美5 analyzed forms 美生5 analyzed forms 美雄5 analyzed forms 三男4 analyzed forms 喜三4 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?

20 of 67 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 checked67

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings20

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading47

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set6

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

仁夫

6 source-recorded readings

Kimioきみお · this pageNorioのりお Hitōひとお Hirōひろお Masaoまさお Yoshioよしお

仁雄

5 source-recorded readings

Kimioきみお · this pageSaneoさねおJin'yūじんゆうTokioときお Hitōひとお

公雄

5 source-recorded readings

Kimioきみお · this pageKōyūこうゆう Tadakatsuただかつ Hisaoひさお Masaoまさお

甲子男

5 source-recorded readings

Kashioかしお Kaneoかねお KineoきねおKimioきみお · this pageKoshioこしお

甲子雄

5 source-recorded readings

Kashioかしお Kaneoかねお KineoきねおKimioきみお · this pageKoshioこしお

公朗

4 source-recorded readings

KimiakiきみあきKimioきみお · this pageKimirōきみろう Kōrōこうろう

仁男

3 source-recorded readings

AkioあきおKimioきみお · this pageHirōひろお

公和

3 source-recorded readings

Kimioきみお · this pageKimikazuきみかずKinkazuきんかず

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 Kimio 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
美	beauty, beautiful	22	0	0	22	9	はる, よし, よしみ, り	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
雄	masculine, male, hero	16	0	16	0	12	かつ, たけ, つよし, ゆ +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
夫	husband, man	15	0	15	0	4	お, と, ゆう, よ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
男	male	15	0	15	0	7	み	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
公	public, prince, official	11	11	0	0	4	あきら, き, きみ, きん +5	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
喜	rejoice, take pleasure in	11	11	0	0	12	あき, きゅ, のぶ, ゆき +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
生	life, genuine, birth	10	0	10	0	5	あさ, いき, いく, いけ +21	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
三	three	10	0	0	10	3	か, さ, さい, さえ +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
紀	chronicle, account, narrative	7	7	0	0	9	おさむ, ただす, とし, とも +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
君	mister, you, ruler	6	6	0	0	7	み	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
希	hope, beg, request	4	4	0	0	7	のぞ, のぞみ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
貴	precious, value, prize	4	4	0	0	12	きよ, ぎ, たか, たかし +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6

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

きみを

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみを · this page

Characters in order

きKanaみKanaをKana

Exact written form

上雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

KazuoかずおKimioきみお · this page

Characters in order

上above, up雄masculine, male

Exact written form

乙未生

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this pageTomioとみお

Characters in order

乙the latter, duplicate未un-, not yet生life, genuine

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乾夫

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this page

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乾drought, dry夫husband, man

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乾雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this page

Characters in order

乾drought, dry雄masculine, male

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亀三男

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this page

Characters in order

亀tortoise, turtle三three男male

Exact written form

亀三雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this page

Characters in order

亀tortoise, turtle三three雄masculine, male

Exact written form

仁夫

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this pageNorioのりお Hitōひとお Hirōひろお Masaoまさお Yoshioよしお

Characters in order

仁humanity, virtue夫husband, man

Exact written form

仁男

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

AkioあきおKimioきみお · this pageHirōひろお

Characters in order

仁humanity, virtue男male

Exact written form

仁雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kimioきみお · this pageSaneoさねおJin'yūじんゆうTokioときお Hitōひとお

Characters in order

仁humanity, virtue雄masculine, male

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 67. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Kimio 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.

美beauty, beautiful22 of 67 analyzed forms 雄masculine, male, hero16 of 67 analyzed forms 夫husband, man15 of 67 analyzed forms 男male15 of 67 analyzed forms 公public, prince, official11 of 67 analyzed forms 喜rejoice, take pleasure in11 of 67 analyzed forms 生life, genuine, birth10 of 67 analyzed forms 三three10 of 67 analyzed forms 紀chronicle, account, narrative7 of 67 analyzed forms 君mister, you, ruler6 of 67 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Kimio

66 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading きみお. 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.

きみを

きみを · Kimio

Katakana キミヲMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Kimio

Extended source depth

How to read Kimio

What can Kimio mean?

きみを

上雄

乙未生

乾夫

乾雄

亀三男

亀三雄

仁夫

仁男

仁雄

伎三男

公勇

How to read these meanings

How Kimio is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Kimio records

Corpus structure behind Kimio

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Kimio spellings

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

きみを

上雄

乙未生

乾夫

乾雄

亀三男

亀三雄

仁夫

仁男

仁雄

Kanji recurring across Kimio spellings

Explore written forms of Kimio

きみを

上雄

乙未生

乾夫

乾雄

亀三男

亀三雄

仁夫

仁男

仁雄

伎三男

公勇

公和

公夫

公扶

公朗

公生

公男

公穂

公美翁

公郎

公雄

其美夫

君夫

君王

君生

君男

君郎

君雄

喜三夫

喜三生

喜三男

喜三雄

喜味夫

喜巳男

喜美夫

喜美生

喜美男

喜美郎

喜美雄

己巳男

巳三夫

希美夫

希美生