Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Kozue

こずえ

Female-classified given-name records.

こずえコズエKozue

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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 spellings49

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows53

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Kozue

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こずえ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formコズエ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationKozue

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

Mora segmentationこ · ず · え

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

Kanji spellings10

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings2

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

こずえ

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

こKana characterずKana characterえKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こず恵

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterずKana character恵favor, blessing, grace

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こず末

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterずKana character末end, close, tip

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

コズ枝

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

コKana characterズKana character枝bough, branch, twig

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こず枝

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterずKana character枝bough, branch, twig

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こず江

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterずKana character江creek, inlet, bay

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こず絵

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterずKana character絵picture, drawing, painting

Kana-only spelling

こづえ

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterづKana characterえKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こづ枝

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterづKana character枝bough, branch, twig

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

こづ江

This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.

Characters and loaded glosses

こKana characterづKana character江creek, inlet, bay

Kanji spelling

倖津絵

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

倖happiness, luck津haven, port, harbor絵picture, drawing, painting

Kanji spelling

児寿枝

Characters and loaded glosses

児newborn babe, child, young of animals寿longevity, congratulations, one's natural life枝bough, branch, twig

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 50. 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 Kozue 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

こずえ · こづえ · コズえ

Kanji-based spellings48

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-only2

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms15

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms15

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms18

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 asSurname

こずえ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms4

4 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labels—

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
こずえKozue	4142 source rows	female 42source rows · distinct forms: female 41	00 source rows
こずえKozue	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	44 source rows
こづえKozue	1111 source rows	female 11source rows · distinct forms: female 11	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 Kozue 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
こづえ	こづえ	Kodzue
小づえ	こづえ	Kodzue

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.

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

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Kozue

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 data48

3–39 strokes observed span

Median total strokes18

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms46

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
こずえ	Kozue	3	42
こづえ	Kozue	3	11

Recurring first-position kanji

小little, small11 forms 梢treetops, twig6 forms 湖lake3 forms 鼓drum, beat2 forms 倖happiness, luck1 form 児newborn babe, child1 form

Recurring final-position kanji

恵favor, blessing10 forms 枝bough, branch10 forms 江creek, inlet8 forms 絵picture, drawing4 forms 末end, close2 forms 季seasons2 forms

One-character kanji forms

杪twig, treetop1 form 梢treetops, twig1 form 槇twig, Chinese black pine1 form 槙twig, ornamental evergreen1 form 標signpost, seal1 form 趙nimble, late-going1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

津江4 analyzed forms 津絵2 analyzed forms 寿枝2 analyzed forms 寿恵2 analyzed forms 小寿2 analyzed forms 小枝2 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?

13 of 50 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 checked50

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings13

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading36

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set5

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

小枝

5 source-recorded readings

OedaおえだKoedaこえだKozueこずえ · this pageSaeさえSaedaさえだ

梢

4 source-recorded readings

AzusaあずさKozueこずえ · this pageShōしょう Sueすえ

小づえ

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageKozueこづえ · this page

小津枝

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageKozueこづえ · this page

小都江

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageKozueこづえ · this page

末枝

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageMatsueまつえ

梢枝

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageTakaeたかえ

梢絵

2 source-recorded readings

Kozueこずえ · this pageTakaeたかえ

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 Kozue 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
枝	bough, branch, twig	11	0	10	1	0	8	え, ぐさ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
小	little, small	11	11	0	0	0	3	いさら, こう, さざ, しゃお +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
恵	favor, blessing, grace	10	0	10	0	0	10	あや, け, さと, さとし +4	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
江	creek, inlet, bay	8	0	8	0	0	6	くん, とうみ, み, りえ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
津	haven, port, harbor	8	0	0	8	0	9	ず, ち, と	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
梢	treetops, twig	8	6	1	0	1	11	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
寿	longevity, congratulations, one's natural life	5	0	0	5	0	7	かず, じ, じゅう, すっ +9	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
絵	picture, drawing, painting	4	0	4	0	0	12	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
末	end, close, tip	3	1	2	0	0	5	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
湖	lake	3	3	0	0	0	12	うみ, み	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
都	capital, metropolis	2	0	0	2	0	11	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
季	seasons	2	0	2	0	0	8	すえ, とし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4

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

こずえ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaずKanaえKana

Exact written form

こず恵

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaずKana恵favor, blessing

Exact written form

こず末

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaずKana末end, close

Exact written form

コズ枝

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ

Characters in order

コKanaズKana枝bough, branch

Exact written form

こず枝

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaずKana枝bough, branch

Exact written form

こず江

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

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こKanaずKana江creek, inlet

Exact written form

こず絵

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこずえ · this page

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こKanaずKana絵picture, drawing

Exact written form

こづえ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこづえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaづKanaえKana

Exact written form

こづ枝

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこづえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaづKana枝bough, branch

Exact written form

こづ江

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Kozueこづえ · this page

Characters in order

こKanaづKana江creek, inlet

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 50. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Kozue 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.

枝bough, branch, twig11 of 50 analyzed forms 小little, small11 of 50 analyzed forms 恵favor, blessing, grace10 of 50 analyzed forms 江creek, inlet, bay8 of 50 analyzed forms 津haven, port, harbor8 of 50 analyzed forms 梢treetops, twig8 of 50 analyzed forms 寿longevity, congratulations, one's natural life5 of 50 analyzed forms 絵picture, drawing, painting4 of 50 analyzed forms 末end, close, tip3 of 50 analyzed forms 湖lake3 of 50 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Kozue

42 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading こずえ. 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.

こずえ

こずえ · Kozue

Katakana コズエMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Kozue

Extended source depth

How to read Kozue

What can Kozue mean?

こずえ

こず恵

こず末

コズ枝

こず枝

こず江

こず絵

こづえ

こづ枝

こづ江

倖津絵

児寿枝

How to read these meanings

How Kozue is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Kozue records

Corpus structure behind Kozue

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Kozue spellings

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

こずえ

こず恵

こず末

コズ枝

こず枝

こず江

こず絵

こづえ

こづ枝

こづ江

Kanji recurring across Kozue spellings

Explore written forms of Kozue

こずえ

こず恵

こず末

コズ枝

こず枝

こず江

こず絵

こづえ

こづ枝

こづ江

倖津絵

児寿枝

古寿恵

好末

子津江

小づえ

小づえ

小寿恵

小寿枝

小枝

小枝恵

小梢

小津枝

小津枝

小津江

小都恵

小都江

小都江

小鶴慧

己珠恵

木津江

末枝

杪

梢

梢恵

梢愛

梢枝

梢栄

梢江

梢絵

槇

槌恵

槙

標