Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Marimo

マリモ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

まりもマリモMarimo

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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 rows46

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Marimo

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まりも

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formマリモ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMarimo

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

Mora segmentationま · り · も

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 Marimo 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 “Marimo”, 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

マリモ

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リKana characterモKana character

Kana-only spelling

まりも

Characters and loaded glosses

まKana characterりKana characterもKana character

Kanji spelling

万梨萌

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梨pear tree萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud

Kanji spelling

万理茂

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000理logic, arrangement, reason茂overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant

Kanji spelling

万理萌

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000理logic, arrangement, reason萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud

Kanji spelling

万璃母

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000璃glassy, lapis lazuli母mother

Kanji spelling

万莉萌

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000莉jasmine萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud

Kanji spelling

万里穂

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village, parent's home穂ear, ear (grain), head

Kanji spelling

万里茂

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village, parent's home茂overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant

Kanji spelling

万里萌

Characters and loaded glosses

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village, parent's home萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud

Kanji spelling

毬望

Characters and loaded glosses

毬burr, ball望ambition, full moon, hope

Kanji spelling

毬母

Characters and loaded glosses

毬burr, ball母mother

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 46. 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 Marimo 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

まりも · マリモ

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-only2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms10

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms34

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

まりも in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms45

46 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms1

1 source spelling/reading row

Given-name labelsfemale 45 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
まりもMarimo	4546 source rows	female 45 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 44 · unspecified 1	11 source row
まりもMarimo	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 Marimo

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

16–37 strokes observed span

Median total strokes27

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
まりも	Marimo	3	46

Recurring first-position kanji

麻hemp, flax10 forms 茉jasmine9 forms 万ten thousand, 10,0008 forms 真true, reality7 forms 鞠ball6 forms 毬burr, ball3 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

萌show symptoms of, sprout16 forms 茂overgrown, grow thick9 forms 望ambition, full moon3 forms 藻seaweed, duckweed3 forms 百hundred3 forms 母mother2 forms

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

莉萌5 analyzed forms 理茂4 analyzed forms 里茂4 analyzed forms 理萌3 analyzed forms 万里3 analyzed forms 麻理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 46 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 checked46

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 set2

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

莉萌

2 source-recorded readings

Marimoまりも · this pageRihoりほ

鞠守

2 source-recorded readings

MarisuまりすMarimoまりも · this page

鞠望

2 source-recorded readings

MarinoまりのMarimoまりも · 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 Marimo 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
萌	show symptoms of, sprout, bud	16	0	16	0	11	もえ, きざし	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
里	ri, village, parent's home	10	0	0	10	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
麻	hemp, flax, numb	10	10	0	0	11	あ, あざ, お	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
理	logic, arrangement, reason	9	0	0	9	11	あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
茂	overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant	9	0	9	0	8	うむさ, き, し, つとむ +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
茉	jasmine	9	9	0	0	8	み	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
万	ten thousand, 10,000	8	8	0	0	3	かず, ま, ゆる	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
真	true, reality, Buddhist sect	7	7	0	0	10	さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
莉	jasmine	6	1	0	5	10	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
鞠	ball	6	6	0	0	17	まい	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
梨	pear tree	4	0	0	4	11	か	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
璃	glassy, lapis lazuli	3	0	0	3	15	あき	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

マリモ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも

Characters in order

マKanaリKanaモKana

Exact written form

まりも

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

まKanaりKanaもKana

Exact written form

万梨萌

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000梨pear tree萌show symptoms of, sprout

Exact written form

万理茂

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000理logic, arrangement茂overgrown, grow thick

Exact written form

万理萌

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000理logic, arrangement萌show symptoms of, sprout

Exact written form

万璃母

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000璃glassy, lapis lazuli母mother

Exact written form

万莉萌

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000莉jasmine萌show symptoms of, sprout

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万里穂

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village穂ear, ear (grain)

Exact written form

万里茂

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village茂overgrown, grow thick

Exact written form

万里萌

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Marimoまりも · this page

Characters in order

万ten thousand, 10,000里ri, village萌show symptoms of, sprout

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 46. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Marimo 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.

萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud16 of 46 analyzed forms 里ri, village, parent's home10 of 46 analyzed forms 麻hemp, flax, numb10 of 46 analyzed forms 理logic, arrangement, reason9 of 46 analyzed forms 茂overgrown, grow thick, be luxuriant9 of 46 analyzed forms 茉jasmine9 of 46 analyzed forms 万ten thousand, 10,0008 of 46 analyzed forms 真true, reality, Buddhist sect7 of 46 analyzed forms 莉jasmine6 of 46 analyzed forms 鞠ball6 of 46 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Marimo

46 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まりも. 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.

マリモ

マリモ · Marimo

Katakana マリモMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Marimo

Extended source depth

How to read Marimo

What can Marimo mean?

マリモ

まりも

万梨萌

万理茂

万理萌

万璃母

万莉萌

万里穂

万里茂

万里萌

毬望

毬母

How to read these meanings

How Marimo is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Marimo

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Marimo spellings

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

マリモ

まりも

万梨萌

万理茂

万理萌

万璃母

万莉萌

万里穂

万里茂

万里萌

Kanji recurring across Marimo spellings

Explore written forms of Marimo

マリモ

まりも

万梨萌

万理茂

万理萌

万璃母

万莉萌

万里穂

万里茂

万里萌

毬望

毬母

毬藻

真利茂

真梨若

真理翔

真理茂

真莉萌

真里茂

真里藻

茉利萌

茉梨望

茉梨萌

茉理茂

茉理萌

茉莉方

茉莉萌

茉里百

茉里茂

莉萌

鞠守

鞠望

鞠毛

鞠百

鞠萌

鞠藻

麻理若

麻理茂

麻理萌

麻璃萌

麻璃萠

麻莉萌

麻里百

麻里茂

麻里萌