Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Makio

まきを

Given-name classification varies across source records.

まきおマキオMakio

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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 spellings45

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows45

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Makio

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まきお

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマキオ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMakio

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

Mora segmentationま · き · お

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 Makio 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 “Makio”, 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

まきを

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

まKana characterきKana characterをKana character

Kanji spelling

万亀夫

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亀tortoise, turtle夫husband, man

Kanji spelling

万亀生

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle生life, genuine, birth

Kanji spelling

万亀男

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle男male

Kanji spelling

万亀雄

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

万吉男

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000吉good luck, joy, congratulations男male

Kanji spelling

万喜夫

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in夫husband, man

Kanji spelling

万喜男

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in男male

Kanji spelling

万喜雄

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in雄masculine, male, hero

Kanji spelling

万木生

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000木tree, wood生life, genuine, birth

Kanji spelling

万紀夫

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000紀chronicle, account, narrative夫husband, man

Kanji spelling

巻男

Characters and loaded glosses

巻scroll, volume, book男male

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 45. 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 Makio 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

まきお · まきを

Kanji-based spellings44

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

2-kanji forms14

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 + surname

まきお in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms44

44 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms6

6 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 2 · unspecified 42

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
まきおMakio	4444 source rows	female 2 · unspecified 42source rows · distinct forms: female 2 · unspecified 42	66 source rows
まきをMakio	11 source row	unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: unspecified 1	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 Makio 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
まきを	まきを	Makiwo

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.

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

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Makio

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 data44

12–34 strokes observed span

Median total strokes24

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms44

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
まきお	Makio	3	44
まきを	Makio	3	1

Recurring first-position kanji

真true, reality11 forms 万ten thousand, 10,00010 forms 牧breed, care for6 forms 眞truth, reality4 forms 槙twig, ornamental evergreen3 forms 巻scroll, volume2 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

男male13 forms 夫husband, man11 forms 雄masculine, male9 forms 生life, genuine7 forms 緒thong, beginning1 form 郎son, counter for sons1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

万亀4 analyzed forms 喜男4 analyzed forms 万喜3 analyzed forms 喜夫3 analyzed forms 喜雄3 analyzed forms 紀夫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?

3 of 45 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 checked45

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings3

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading42

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set3

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

牧郎

3 source-recorded readings

Makioまきお · this pageMakirōまきろうMokurōもくろう

未喜男

2 source-recorded readings

Makioまきお · this pageMikioみきお

蒔生

2 source-recorded readings

TokioときおMakioまきお · 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 Makio 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
男	male	13	0	13	0	7	み	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
夫	husband, man	11	0	11	0	4	お, と, ゆう, よ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
真	true, reality, Buddhist sect	11	11	0	0	10	さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
万	ten thousand, 10,000	10	10	0	0	3	かず, ま, ゆる	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
喜	rejoice, take pleasure in	10	0	0	10	12	あき, きゅ, のぶ, ゆき +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
雄	masculine, male, hero	9	0	9	0	12	かつ, たけ, つよし, ゆ +1	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
生	life, genuine, birth	7	0	7	0	5	あさ, いき, いく, いけ +21	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
紀	chronicle, account, narrative	6	0	0	6	9	おさむ, ただす, とし, とも +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
牧	breed, care for, shepherd	6	6	0	0	8	ま, まい, もく	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
亀	tortoise, turtle	5	0	0	5	11	ひさ, ひさし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
眞	truth, reality, Buddhist sect	4	4	0	0	10	さな, ち, まこ, まさ +1	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
槙	twig, ornamental evergreen	3	3	0	0	14	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9

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

まきを

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきを · this page

Characters in order

まKanaきKanaをKana

Exact written form

万亀夫

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle夫husband, man

Exact written form

万亀生

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle生life, genuine

Exact written form

万亀男

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle男male

Exact written form

万亀雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000亀tortoise, turtle雄masculine, male

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万吉男

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000吉good luck, joy男male

Exact written form

万喜夫

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in夫husband, man

Exact written form

万喜男

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in男male

Exact written form

万喜雄

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000喜rejoice, take pleasure in雄masculine, male

Exact written form

万木生

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Makioまきお · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000木tree, wood生life, genuine

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 45. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Makio 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.

男male13 of 45 analyzed forms 夫husband, man11 of 45 analyzed forms 真true, reality, Buddhist sect11 of 45 analyzed forms 万ten thousand, 10,00010 of 45 analyzed forms 喜rejoice, take pleasure in10 of 45 analyzed forms 雄masculine, male, hero9 of 45 analyzed forms 生life, genuine, birth7 of 45 analyzed forms 紀chronicle, account, narrative6 of 45 analyzed forms 牧breed, care for, shepherd6 of 45 analyzed forms 亀tortoise, turtle5 of 45 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Makio

44 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まきお. 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.

まきを

まきを · Makio

Katakana マキヲMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Makio

Extended source depth

How to read Makio

What can Makio mean?

まきを

万亀夫

万亀生

万亀男

万亀雄

万吉男

万喜夫

万喜男

万喜雄

万木生

万紀夫

巻男

How to read these meanings

How Makio is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Makio records

Corpus structure behind Makio

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Makio spellings

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

まきを

万亀夫

万亀生

万亀男

万亀雄

万吉男

万喜夫

万喜男

万喜雄

万木生

Kanji recurring across Makio spellings

Explore written forms of Makio

まきを

万亀夫

万亀生

万亀男

万亀雄

万吉男

万喜夫

万喜男

万喜雄

万木生

万紀夫

巻男

巻雄

慎男

未喜男

槙夫

槙男

槙雄

満喜男

満紀男

牧夫

牧生

牧男

牧緒

牧郎

牧雄

眞喜夫

眞喜雄

眞基旺

眞紀雄

真亀男

真喜夫

真喜男

真喜雄

真希男

真木夫

真樹夫

真樹生

真紀夫

真紀生

真規雄

蒔生

蒔野

麻樹生