group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Kōjin
光人
Given-name gender label not specified in these source records.
こうじんコウジンKōjin
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings21 Source spelling/reading rows21 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 Kōjin
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: Koujin. 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 Kōjin 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 “Kōjin”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
光人
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
光仁
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
公人
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
厚仁
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
宏靭
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
岬人
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
広人
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
康人
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
弘人
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
弘仭
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
恒人
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
晧人
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 21. 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 Kōjin 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.
こうじん
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.
こうじん in the imported JMnedict corpus
0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| こうしんKōshin | 4646 source rows | unspecified 46source rows · distinct forms: unspecified 46 | 1212 source rows |
| こうじんKōjin | 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 Kōjin
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.
6–19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| こうじん | Kōjin | 4 | 21 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
12 of 21 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
公人
5 source-recorded readings
光仁
4 source-recorded readings
康人
4 source-recorded readings
弘人
4 source-recorded readings
広人
3 source-recorded readings
興人
3 source-recorded readings
OkitoおきとOkindoおきんどKōjinこうじん · this page
行人
3 source-recorded readings
光人
2 source-recorded readings
Kōjinこうじん · this pageMitsutoみつと
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 Kōjin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 人 | person | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 2 | じ, と, ね, ひこ +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 光 | ray, light | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | あき, あきら, こお, てる +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 仁 | humanity, virtue, benevolence | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | きみ, く, さと, しのぶ +10 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 弘 | vast, broad, wide | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ひろ, ひろし, ひろむ, みつ +2 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 公 | public, prince, official | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | あきら, き, きみ, きん +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 厚 | thick, heavy, rich | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | あ, あっ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 宏 | wide, large | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | あつ, ひろ, ひろし | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 靭 | soft, pliable, quiver | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ゆき | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 岬 | headland, cape, spit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | さき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 広 | wide, broad, spacious | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 康 | ease, peace | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | かん, こ, みち, やす +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 仭 | fathom | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
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
光人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kōjinこうじん · this pageMitsutoみつと
Characters in order
Exact written form
光仁
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
公人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
厚仁
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AtsuhitoあつひとKōjinこうじん · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
宏靭
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kōjinこうじん · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
岬人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kōjinこうじん · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
広人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
康人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
弘人
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
弘仭
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kōjinこうじん · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 21. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kōjin 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 Kōjin
21 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading こうじん. 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.
光人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
光仁
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
公人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
厚仁
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
宏靭
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
岬人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
広人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
康人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
弘人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
弘仭
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
恒人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
晧人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
洸人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
港人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
甲人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
皓人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
耕人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
興人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
行人
こうじん · Kōjin
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.
郊人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
鴻人
こうじん · Kōjin
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Kōjin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 光人 | こうじん | 光 — ray, light · 人 — person | 8 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 光仁 | こうじん | 光 — ray, light · 仁 — humanity, virtue | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 公人 | こうじん | 公 — public, prince · 人 — person | 6 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 厚仁 | こうじん | 厚 — thick, heavy · 仁 — humanity, virtue | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 宏靭 | こうじん | 宏 — wide, large · 靭 — soft, pliable | 19 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 岬人 | こうじん | 岬 — headland, cape · 人 — person | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 広人 | こうじん | 広 — wide, broad · 人 — person | 7 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 康人 | こうじん | 康 — ease, peace · 人 — person | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 弘人 | こうじん | 弘 — vast, broad · 人 — person | 7 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 弘仭 | こうじん | 弘 — vast, broad · 仭 — fathom | 10 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 恒人 | こうじん | 恒 — constancy, always · 人 — person | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 晧人 | こうじん | 晧 — bright, pure · 人 — person | 13 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 洸人 | こうじん | 洸 — sparkling water · 人 — person | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 港人 | こうじん | 港 — harbor · 人 — person | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 甲人 | こうじん | 甲 — armor, high (voice) · 人 — person | 7 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 皓人 | こうじん | 皓 — white, clear · 人 — person | 14 | All 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 Kōjin 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 Kōjin
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
Kōji
仁光公厚宏岬広弘
8 shared kanji · 52 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHiroshi
仁光公厚宏広弘
7 shared kanji · 45 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYoshihiro
仁公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 93 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHiromi
仁光公宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 52 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHiroaki
仁光公宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 43 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkihiro
仁光公宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 40 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōjirō
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 29 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōichirō
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 28 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōsuke
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 26 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōsei
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 25 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōshō
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKōtarō
光公厚宏広弘
6 shared kanji · 20 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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