Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Maori

まおり

Given-name classification varies across source records.

まおりマオリMaori

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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 spellings24

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows24

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Maori

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まおり

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマオリ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMaori

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

Mora segmentationま · お · り

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 Maori 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 “Maori”, 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

まおり

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おKana characterりKana character

Kanji spelling

万桜里

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桜cherry里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

万織

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000織weave, fabric

Kanji spelling

万音鈴

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000音sound, noise鈴small bell, buzzer

Kanji spelling

和央里

Characters and loaded glosses

和harmony, Japanese style, peace央center, middle里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

愛織

Characters and loaded glosses

愛love, affection, favourite織weave, fabric

Kanji spelling

真央梨

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect央center, middle梨pear tree

Kanji spelling

真央莉

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect央center, middle莉jasmine

Kanji spelling

真央里

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect央center, middle里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

真折

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect折fold, break, fracture

Kanji spelling

真桜里

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect桜cherry里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

真織

Characters and loaded glosses

真true, reality, Buddhist sect織weave, fabric

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 24. 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 Maori 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 readings1

まおり

Kanji-based spellings23

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 forms6

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms17

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

まおり in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms24

24 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 22 · unspecified 2

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
まおりMaori	2424 source rows	female 22 · unspecified 2source rows · distinct forms: female 22 · unspecified 2	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 Maori

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 data23

17–38 strokes observed span

Median total strokes27

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms23

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
まおり	Maori	3	24

Recurring first-position kanji

真true, reality6 forms 麻hemp, flax5 forms 舞dance, flit4 forms 万ten thousand, 10,0003 forms 茉jasmine3 forms 和harmony, Japanese style1 form

Recurring final-position kanji

里ri, village10 forms 織weave, fabric5 forms 鈴small bell, buzzer2 forms 梨pear tree1 form 莉jasmine1 form 折fold, break1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

央里4 analyzed forms 桜里3 analyzed forms 真央3 analyzed forms 音鈴2 analyzed forms 緒里2 analyzed forms 麻織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?

5 of 24 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 checked24

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings5

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading19

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set4

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

愛織

4 source-recorded readings

Airiあいり AoriあおりMaoriまおり · this pageManaoまなお

真織

3 source-recorded readings

MaoまおMaoriまおり · this pageMariまり

麻織

3 source-recorded readings

MaoまおMaoriまおり · this pageMashikiましき

和央里

2 source-recorded readings

Maoriまおり · this pageWaoriわおり

舞織

2 source-recorded readings

MaoまおMaoriまおり · 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 Maori 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
里	ri, village, parent's home	10	0	10	0	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
央	center, middle	7	0	0	7	5	あきら, え, お, さと +6	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
織	weave, fabric	6	0	5	1	18	こおり, こり, のり	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
真	true, reality, Buddhist sect	6	6	0	0	10	さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
麻	hemp, flax, numb	5	5	0	0	11	あ, あざ, お	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
舞	dance, flit, circle	4	4	0	0	15	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
万	ten thousand, 10,000	3	3	0	0	3	かず, ま, ゆる	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
桜	cherry	3	0	0	3	10	さ, ろう	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
音	sound, noise	3	0	0	3	9	お, と	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
茉	jasmine	3	3	0	0	8	み	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
鈴	small bell, buzzer	2	0	2	0	13	ず	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
緒	thong, beginning, inception	2	0	0	2	14	ほ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8

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

まおり

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

まKanaおKanaりKana

Exact written form

万桜里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000桜cherry里ri, village

Exact written form

万織

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000織weave, fabric

Exact written form

万音鈴

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000音sound, noise鈴small bell, buzzer

Exact written form

和央里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this pageWaoriわおり

Characters in order

和harmony, Japanese style央center, middle里ri, village

Exact written form

愛織

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Airiあいり AoriあおりMaoriまおり · this pageManaoまなお

Characters in order

愛love, affection織weave, fabric

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真央梨

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality央center, middle梨pear tree

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真央莉

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality央center, middle莉jasmine

Exact written form

真央里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality央center, middle里ri, village

Exact written form

真折

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Maoriまおり · this page

Characters in order

真true, reality折fold, break

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 24. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Maori 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.

里ri, village, parent's home10 of 24 analyzed forms 央center, middle7 of 24 analyzed forms 織weave, fabric6 of 24 analyzed forms 真true, reality, Buddhist sect6 of 24 analyzed forms 麻hemp, flax, numb5 of 24 analyzed forms 舞dance, flit, circle4 of 24 analyzed forms 万ten thousand, 10,0003 of 24 analyzed forms 桜cherry3 of 24 analyzed forms 音sound, noise3 of 24 analyzed forms 茉jasmine3 of 24 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Maori

24 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まおり. 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.

まおり

まおり · Maori

Katakana マオリMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Maori

Extended source depth

How to read Maori

What can Maori mean?

まおり

万桜里

万織

万音鈴

和央里

愛織

真央梨

真央莉

真央里

真折

真桜里

真織

How to read these meanings

How Maori is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Maori

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Maori spellings

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

まおり

万桜里

万織

万音鈴

和央里

愛織

真央梨

真央莉

真央里

真折

Kanji recurring across Maori spellings

Explore written forms of Maori

まおり

万桜里

万織

万音鈴

和央里

愛織

真央梨

真央莉

真央里

真折

真桜里

真織

舞央理

舞桜里

舞織

舞音鈴

茉央里

茉緒里

茉音里

麻央里

麻穂利

麻緒里

麻織

麻織美

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What does Maori mean?

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