group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings18 Source spelling/reading rows18 Coverage levelExtended
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.
records contributing to this reading group
based only on the imported source footprint
Pronunciation & romanization
How to read Meari
The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.
Normalized to hiragana for comparison.
The same reading converted to katakana.
Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Meari. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
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 Meari 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 “Meari”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
メアリ
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
メKana characterアKana characterリKana character
Kanji spelling
夢亜理
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
Kanji spelling
明愛鈴
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
Kanji spelling
明有里
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
Kanji spelling
梅安璃
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
Kanji spelling
瞳彩凛
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
Kanji spelling
芽亜利
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
Kanji spelling
芽亜理
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
Kanji spelling
芽亜里
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
Kanji spelling
芽安李
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
Kanji spelling
芽安理
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
Kanji spelling
芽安里
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
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 18. 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 Meari 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.
めあり · メアリ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
recorded spellings
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.
めあり in the imported JMnedict corpus
18 source spelling/reading rows
0 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| めありMeari | 1818 source rows | female 18source rows · distinct forms: female 18 | 00 source rows |
| めありMeari | 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.
JMnedict source text
Source-supplied text attached to Meari 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 |
|---|---|---|
| メアリ | めあり | Mary |
| メアリ | めあり | Marye |
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.
17 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Meari
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.
13–43 strokes observed span
among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data
all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes
contains at least one character outside that loaded classification
| Reading | Romanization | Morae | Forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| めあり | Meari | 3 | 18 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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 18 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.
distinct spellings displayed on this page
exact written forms with 2+ source readings
within this active given-name corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
芽生
萌亜里
2 source-recorded readings
Meariめあり · this pageMoariもあり
萌李
2 source-recorded readings
Meariめあり · this pageMomoもも
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 Meari 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 | Solo | Strokes | KANJIDIC2 nanori | Loaded class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 芽 | bud, sprout, spear | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | じ, めぐ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 亜 | Asia, rank next, come after | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | や, つぎ, つぐ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 里 | ri, village, parent's home | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | さ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 理 | logic, arrangement, reason | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 安 | relax, cheap, low | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | あ, あす, あず, あっ +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 有 | possess, have, exist | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | あ, あら, あり, ある +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 萌 | show symptoms of, sprout, bud | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | もえ, きざし | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 明 | bright, light | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | あきら, あけ, あす, きら +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 李 | plum | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | もも, い | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 夢 | dream, vision, illusion | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 愛 | love, affection, favourite | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | あ, あし, え, かな +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 鈴 | small bell, buzzer | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | ず | 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
メアリ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
メKanaアKanaリKana
Exact written form
夢亜理
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
明愛鈴
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
明有里
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
梅安璃
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
瞳彩凛
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
芽亜利
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
芽亜理
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
芽亜里
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
芽安李
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Meariめあり · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 18. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Meari 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.
芽bud, sprout, spear9 of 18 analyzed forms亜Asia, rank next, come after5 of 18 analyzed forms里ri, village, parent's home5 of 18 analyzed forms理logic, arrangement, reason4 of 18 analyzed forms安relax, cheap, low4 of 18 analyzed forms有possess, have, exist3 of 18 analyzed forms萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud3 of 18 analyzed forms明bright, light2 of 18 analyzed forms李plum2 of 18 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Meari
18 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading めあり. 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.
メアリ
メアリ · Meari
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
夢亜理
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
明愛鈴
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
明有里
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
梅安璃
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
瞳彩凛
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽亜利
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽亜理
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽亜里
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽安李
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽安理
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽安里
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽有
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽有理
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
芽生
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
萌亜里
めあり · Meari
萌show symptoms of, sprout, bud, malt亜Asia, rank next, come after, -ous里ri, village, parent's home, league
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
萌李
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
萌杏里
めあり · Meari
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Meari forms side by side
Each exact written spelling appears once in this table even when JMnedict records more than one reading for that writing. Stroke totals and character glosses come from KANJIDIC2 when all component kanji are available.
| Spelling | One source reading | Character-level glosses | Total strokes | Loaded character class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| メアリ | メアリ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 夢亜理 | めあり | 夢 — dream, vision · 亜 — Asia, rank next · 理 — logic, arrangement | 31 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 明愛鈴 | めあり | 明 — bright, light · 愛 — love, affection · 鈴 — small bell, buzzer | 34 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 明有里 | めあり | 明 — bright, light · 有 — possess, have · 里 — ri, village | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梅安璃 | めあり | 梅 — plum · 安 — relax, cheap · 璃 — glassy, lapis lazuli | 36 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 瞳彩凛 | めあり | 瞳 — pupil (of eye) · 彩 — coloring, paint · 凛 — cold, strict | 43 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽亜利 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 亜 — Asia, rank next · 利 — profit, advantage | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽亜理 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 亜 — Asia, rank next · 理 — logic, arrangement | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽亜里 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 亜 — Asia, rank next · 里 — ri, village | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽安李 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 安 — relax, cheap · 李 — plum | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽安理 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 安 — relax, cheap · 理 — logic, arrangement | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽安里 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 安 — relax, cheap · 里 — ri, village | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽有 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 有 — possess, have | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽有理 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 有 — possess, have · 理 — logic, arrangement | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 芽生 | めあり | 芽 — bud, sprout · 生 — life, genuine | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 萌亜里 | めあり | 萌 — show symptoms of, sprout · 亜 — Asia, rank next · 里 — ri, village | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.
What does Meari mean?
There is not necessarily one fixed English meaning. The reading identifies the spoken name; different written forms can use different kanji. Character glosses describe individual kanji and should not be treated as proof of the intention behind a particular person’s name.
Related readings
More names beginning with めあ
Related by the opening kana of the dictionary reading. This is a deterministic browsing relationship, not a claim that the names share the same meaning.
Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Meari
These links are calculated from exact characters appearing in source-recorded spellings on this page. Sharing a kanji does not mean two names have the same reading, origin, gender or intended meaning.
Given-name relationship
Arisu
亜夢安明有李理里
8 shared kanji · 73 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuria
亜夢安明有李理里
8 shared kanji · 63 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkari
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 220 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipArisa
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 160 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAiri
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 98 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAmiri
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 98 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAeri
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 85 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipArika
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 55 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAri
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 33 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyuri
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 31 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAria
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 31 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipRia
亜安明有李理里
7 shared kanji · 20 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Evidence on this page
What each source establishes
JMnedict establishes recorded written forms, readings and name classifications; where safely associated, this page can also show JMnedict-supplied trans_det source text without treating it as a whole-name meaning. KANJIDIC2 supplies character readings, nanori, stroke counts, grade classes and English character glosses. The Ministry of Justice remains the official reference for Japanese child-name character rules. The Agency for Cultural Affairs romanization guidance is the reference for generated Latin-script reading aids.
Source boundary
The spelling-frequency and structural counts on this page are calculated from imported JMnedict records. They are corpus counts, not population-frequency claims. KANJIDIC2 supplies the kanji metadata used in character and stroke comparisons.
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