group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings9 Source spelling/reading rows9 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 Kotoyo
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: Kotoyo. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
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 Kotoyo 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 “Kotoyo”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
コトヨ
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
コKana characterトKana characterヨKana character
Kanji spelling
小十代
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
小富
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
小豊
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
琴与
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
琴世
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
琴予
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
琴代
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
言世
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 Kotoyo 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.
ことよ · コトヨ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
recorded spellings
recorded spelling
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.
ことよ in the imported JMnedict corpus
9 source spelling/reading rows
0 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| ことよKotoyo | 99 source rows | female 9source rows · distinct forms: female 9 | 00 source rows |
| ことよKotoyo | 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.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Kotoyo
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.
10–17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ことよ | Kotoyo | 3 | 9 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
1 of 9 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
小富
2 source-recorded readings
KotomiことみKotoyoことよ · 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 Kotoyo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 琴 | harp, koto | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 小 | little, small | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | いさら, こう, さざ, しゃお +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 代 | substitute, change, convert | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | す | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 世 | generation, world, society | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | とし, ゆ, ゆき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 十 | ten | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | い, か, ぎ, さ +8 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 富 | wealth, enrich, abundant | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | と, とん, ふっ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 豊 | bountiful, excellent, rich | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | て, で, と, ひろし +4 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 与 | bestow, participate in, give | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | とも, ゆ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 予 | beforehand, previous, myself | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 言 | say, word | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | とき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
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
コトヨ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
コKanaトKanaヨKana
Exact written form
小十代
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
小富
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KotomiことみKotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 小富 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
小豊
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
琴与
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
琴世
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
琴予
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
琴代
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
言世
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kotoyoことよ · this page
Characters in order
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kotoyo 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 Kotoyo
9 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ことよ. 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.
コトヨ
コトヨ · Kotoyo
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
小十代
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
小富
ことよ · Kotoyo
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.
小豊
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
琴与
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
琴世
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
琴予
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
琴代
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
言世
ことよ · Kotoyo
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Kotoyo 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| コトヨ | コトヨ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 小十代 | ことよ | 小 — little, small · 十 — ten · 代 — substitute, change | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 小富 | ことよ | 小 — little, small · 富 — wealth, enrich | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 小豊 | ことよ | 小 — little, small · 豊 — bountiful, excellent | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 琴与 | ことよ | 琴 — harp, koto · 与 — bestow, participate in | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 琴世 | ことよ | 琴 — harp, koto · 世 — generation, world | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 琴予 | ことよ | 琴 — harp, koto · 予 — beforehand, previous | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 琴代 | ことよ | 琴 — harp, koto · 代 — substitute, change | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 言世 | ことよ | 言 — say, word · 世 — generation, world | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Kotoyo 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 こと
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
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76 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotori
51 recorded spellings
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39 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotoe
35 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotoha
32 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotone
23 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotoko
22 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotono
18 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotoka
17 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotona
14 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · limited referenceKodō
10 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceKotoki
8 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Kotoyo
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
Toyoko
与世予代十富豊
7 shared kanji · 29 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipToyomi
与世代十富豊
6 shared kanji · 22 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYoshiko
与世予代琴豊
6 shared kanji · 20 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIsayo
与世代十小
5 shared kanji · 69 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSayoko
与世予代小
5 shared kanji · 41 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMitsuyo
与世予代十
5 shared kanji · 40 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKotomi
十富小琴言
5 shared kanji · 37 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSayo
与世予代小
5 shared kanji · 35 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHisayo
与世予代富
5 shared kanji · 31 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipToshiyo
与世予代富
5 shared kanji · 23 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYoshio
与世予代富
5 shared kanji · 18 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTokiko
世十富言豊
5 shared kanji · 15 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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