Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Machie

マチエ

Female-classified given-name records.

まちえマチエMachie

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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 spellings15

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows15

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Machie

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まちえ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマチエ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMachie

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

Mora segmentationま · ち · 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 Machie 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 “Machie”, 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

マチエ

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

マKana characterチKana characterエKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

まち絵

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

まKana characterちKana character絵picture, drawing, painting

Kanji spelling

万千恵

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

万ten thousand, 10,000千thousand恵favor, blessing, grace

Kanji spelling

万知会

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000知know, wisdom会meeting, meet, party

Kanji spelling

町枝

Characters and loaded glosses

町town, village, block枝bough, branch, twig

Kanji spelling

町江

Characters and loaded glosses

町town, village, block江creek, inlet, bay

Kanji spelling

眞智恵

Characters and loaded glosses

眞truth, reality, Buddhist sect智wisdom, intellect, reason恵favor, blessing, grace

Kanji spelling

真智枝

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect智wisdom, intellect, reason枝bough, branch, twig

Kanji spelling

真智江

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect智wisdom, intellect, reason江creek, inlet, bay

Kanji spelling

真知会

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect知know, wisdom会meeting, meet, party

Kanji spelling

真知江

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect知know, wisdom江creek, inlet, bay

Kanji spelling

真知絵

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect知know, wisdom絵picture, drawing, painting

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 15. 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 Machie 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

まちえ · マチエ

Kanji-based spellings14

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

1-kanji forms1

recorded spelling

2-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms11

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

まちえ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms15

15 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 15

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
まちえMachie	1515 source rows	female 15source rows · distinct forms: female 15	00 source rows
まちえMachie	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 Machie

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 data14

12–32 strokes observed span

Median total strokes24

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms14

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
まちえ	Machie	3	15

Recurring first-position kanji

真true, reality5 forms 万ten thousand, 10,0002 forms 町town, village2 forms 眞truth, reality1 form 茉jasmine1 form 萬ten thousand, 10,0001 form

Recurring final-position kanji

会meeting, meet4 forms 江creek, inlet4 forms 絵picture, drawing2 forms 恵favor, blessing2 forms 枝bough, branch2 forms

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

知会4 analyzed forms 真知3 analyzed forms 真智2 analyzed forms 知江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?

None of the 15 displayed written forms has a second given-name reading in the active JMnedict corpus. This is dictionary-record ambiguity, not a prediction of how a particular person reads the name.

Written forms checked15

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings0

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading15

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set1

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 Machie 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
知	know, wisdom	7	0	0	7	8	さと, さとる, しり, しれ +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
真	true, reality, Buddhist sect	5	5	0	0	10	さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
会	meeting, meet, party	4	0	4	0	6	あい, い	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
江	creek, inlet, bay	4	0	4	0	6	くん, とうみ, み, りえ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
智	wisdom, intellect, reason	3	0	0	3	12	さと, さとし, さとる, さとい +9	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
絵	picture, drawing, painting	2	0	2	0	12	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
万	ten thousand, 10,000	2	2	0	0	3	かず, ま, ゆる	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
恵	favor, blessing, grace	2	0	2	0	10	あや, け, さと, さとし +4	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
町	town, village, block	2	2	0	0	7	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
枝	bough, branch, twig	2	0	2	0	8	え, ぐさ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
千	thousand	1	0	0	1	3	かず, ゆき	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
眞	truth, reality, Buddhist sect	1	1	0	0	10	さな, ち, まこ, まさ +1	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

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Exact written form

マチエ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

マKanaチKanaエKana

Exact written form

まち絵

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

まKanaちKana絵picture, drawing

Exact written form

万千恵

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000千thousand恵favor, blessing

Exact written form

万知会

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000知know, wisdom会meeting, meet

Exact written form

町枝

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

町town, village枝bough, branch

Exact written form

町江

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

町town, village江creek, inlet

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眞智恵

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

眞truth, reality智wisdom, intellect恵favor, blessing

Exact written form

真智枝

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality智wisdom, intellect枝bough, branch

Exact written form

真智江

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality智wisdom, intellect江creek, inlet

Exact written form

真知会

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Machieまちえ · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality知know, wisdom会meeting, meet

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 15. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Machie 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.

知know, wisdom7 of 15 analyzed forms 真true, reality, Buddhist sect5 of 15 analyzed forms 会meeting, meet, party4 of 15 analyzed forms 江creek, inlet, bay4 of 15 analyzed forms 智wisdom, intellect, reason3 of 15 analyzed forms 絵picture, drawing, painting2 of 15 analyzed forms 万ten thousand, 10,0002 of 15 analyzed forms 恵favor, blessing, grace2 of 15 analyzed forms 町town, village, block2 of 15 analyzed forms 枝bough, branch, twig2 of 15 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Machie

15 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まちえ. 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.

マチエ

マチエ · Machie

Katakana マチエMorae 3Strokes —

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

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