Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Maika

マイカ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

まいかマイカMaika

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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 spellings57

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows58

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Maika

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まいか

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマイカ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMaika

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

Mora segmentationま · い · か

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 Maika 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 “Maika”, 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

マイカ

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イKana characterカKana character

Kana-only spelling

まいか

Characters and loaded glosses

まKana characterいKana characterかKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

まい華

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いKana character華splendor, flower, petal

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

まい香

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いKana character香incense, smell, perfume

Kanji spelling

万衣加

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衣garment, clothes, dressing加add, addition, increase

Kanji spelling

万衣花

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000衣garment, clothes, dressing花flower

Kanji spelling

万衣香

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000衣garment, clothes, dressing香incense, smell, perfume

Kanji spelling

妹花

Characters and loaded glosses

妹younger sister花flower

Kanji spelling

妹香

Characters and loaded glosses

妹younger sister香incense, smell, perfume

Kanji spelling

未唯歌

Characters and loaded glosses

未un-, not yet, hitherto唯solely, only, merely歌song, sing

Kanji spelling

梅花

Characters and loaded glosses

梅plum花flower

Kanji spelling

梅香

Characters and loaded glosses

梅plum香incense, smell, perfume

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 58. 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 Maika 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

まいか · マイカ

Kanji-based spellings56

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 forms2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms24

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms30

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

まいか in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms57

58 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 57 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
まいかMaika	5758 source rows	female 57 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 56 · unspecified 1	00 source rows
まいかMaika	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 Maika

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 data56

9–33 strokes observed span

Median total strokes24

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms56

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
まいか	Maika	3	58

Recurring first-position kanji

舞dance, flit17 forms 麻hemp, flax12 forms 真true, reality5 forms 茉jasmine5 forms 万ten thousand, 10,0003 forms 苺strawberry3 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

香incense, smell16 forms 花flower9 forms 華splendor, flower5 forms 加add, addition5 forms 佳excellent, beautiful4 forms 歌song, sing3 forms

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

麻衣7 analyzed forms 衣香6 analyzed forms 真衣4 analyzed forms 万衣3 analyzed forms 衣加3 analyzed forms 茉衣3 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 58 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 checked58

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings13

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading44

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set4

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

梅香

4 source-recorded readings

Umekaうめか Umekoうめこ BaikōばいこうMaikaまいか · this page

舞夏

4 source-recorded readings

Maikaまいか · this pageMainaまいな Manaまな Manatsuまなつ

苺花

4 source-recorded readings

Ichikaいちか IchigoいちごBerikaべりかMaikaまいか · this page

麻衣

4 source-recorded readings

Aiあい Asaiあさい MaiまいMaikaまいか · this page

梅花

3 source-recorded readings

UmekaうめかBaikaばいかMaikaまいか · this page

舞花

3 source-recorded readings

Maikaまいか · this pageMaihaまいは Mahanaまはな

舞華

3 source-recorded readings

Maikaまいか · this pageMaihaまいは Mahanaまはな

舞香

3 source-recorded readings

KanakoかなこMaikaまいか · this pageMaikoまいこ

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 Maika 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
衣	garment, clothes, dressing	20	0	1	19	6	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
舞	dance, flit, circle	17	17	0	0	15	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
香	incense, smell, perfume	16	0	16	0	9	こ, こお, ひゃん, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
麻	hemp, flax, numb	12	12	0	0	11	あ, あざ, お	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
花	flower	9	0	9	0	7	わ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
華	splendor, flower, petal	5	0	5	0	10	わ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
加	add, addition, increase	5	0	5	0	5	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
真	true, reality, Buddhist sect	5	5	0	0	10	さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
茉	jasmine	5	5	0	0	8	み	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
佳	excellent, beautiful, good	4	0	4	0	8	けい, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
万	ten thousand, 10,000	3	3	0	0	3	かず, ま, ゆる	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
歌	song, sing	3	0	3	0	14	—	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

マイカ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか

Characters in order

マKanaイKanaカKana

Exact written form

まいか

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

まKanaいKanaかKana

Exact written form

まい華

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

まKanaいKana華splendor, flower

Exact written form

まい香

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

まKanaいKana香incense, smell

Exact written form

万衣加

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000衣garment, clothes加add, addition

Exact written form

万衣花

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000衣garment, clothes花flower

Exact written form

万衣香

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000衣garment, clothes香incense, smell

Exact written form

妹花

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

妹younger sister花flower

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妹香

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this pageMokaもか

Characters in order

妹younger sister香incense, smell

Exact written form

未唯歌

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maikaまいか · this page

Characters in order

未un-, not yet唯solely, only歌song, sing

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 58. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Maika 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.

衣garment, clothes, dressing20 of 58 analyzed forms 舞dance, flit, circle17 of 58 analyzed forms 香incense, smell, perfume16 of 58 analyzed forms 麻hemp, flax, numb12 of 58 analyzed forms 花flower9 of 58 analyzed forms 華splendor, flower, petal5 of 58 analyzed forms 加add, addition, increase5 of 58 analyzed forms 真true, reality, Buddhist sect5 of 58 analyzed forms 茉jasmine5 of 58 analyzed forms 佳excellent, beautiful, good4 of 58 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Maika

58 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まいか. 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.

マイカ

マイカ · Maika

Katakana マイカMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Maika

Extended source depth

How to read Maika

What can Maika mean?

マイカ

まいか

まい華

まい香

万衣加

万衣花

万衣香

妹花

妹香

未唯歌

梅花

梅香

How to read these meanings

How Maika is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Maika

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Maika spellings

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

マイカ

まいか

まい華

まい香

万衣加

万衣花

万衣香

妹花

妹香

未唯歌

Kanji recurring across Maika spellings

Explore written forms of Maika

マイカ

まいか

まい華

まい香

万衣加

万衣花

万衣香

妹花

妹香

未唯歌

梅花

梅香

満依香

真唯香

真衣佳

真衣加

真衣果

真衣香

磨衣香

米香

舞以伽

舞伽

舞佳

舞加

舞可

舞嘉

舞夏

舞果

舞歌

舞花

舞華

舞衣香

舞郁

舞里香

舞雅

舞風

舞香

苺佳

苺花

苺香

茉似花

茉依加

茉衣加

茉衣夏

茉衣香