Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Misako

みさこ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

みさこミサコMisako

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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 spellings107

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows109

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Misako

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みさこ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formミサコ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMisako

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

Mora segmentationみ · さ · こ

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 Misako 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 “Misako”, 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

みさこ

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

みKana characterさKana characterこKana character

Kana-only spelling

ミサコ

Characters and loaded glosses

ミKana characterサKana characterコKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

みさ子

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

みKana characterさKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ミサ子

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

ミKana characterサKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三三子

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

三three三three子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三佐子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three佐assistant, help子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三咲子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three咲blossom, bloom子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三山子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three山mountain子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三左子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three左left子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三更子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three更grow late, night watch, sit up late子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三沙子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three沙sand子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

三砂子

Characters and loaded glosses

三three砂sand子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 109. 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 Misako 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 readings3

みさこ · ミサコ · ミサこ

Kanji-based spellings107

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 forms4

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms101

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

みさこ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms108

112 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 111 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
みさこMisako	108112 source rows	female 111 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 107 · unspecified 1	00 source rows
みさごMisago	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	33 source rows
みさこMisako	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	00 source rows
みさこMisako	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 Misako

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 data107

3–29 strokes observed span

Median total strokes19

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms104

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms3

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
みさこ	Misako	3	109

Recurring first-position kanji

美beauty, beautiful28 forms 実reality, truth16 forms 三three11 forms 未un-, not yet8 forms 碧blue, green6 forms 弥all the more, increasingly5 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

子child, sign of the rat102 forms 瑚ancestral offering receptacle, coral2 forms 湖lake1 form 狐fox1 form 香incense, smell1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

沙子15 analyzed forms 佐子11 analyzed forms 咲子8 analyzed forms 紗子8 analyzed forms 砂子6 analyzed forms 早子5 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?

9 of 80 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 checked80

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings9

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading69

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set4

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

操子

4 source-recorded readings

Ayakoあやこ SōkoそうこMisaokoみさおこMisakoみさこ · this page

岬子

3 source-recorded readings

SakikoさきこMisakikoみさきこMisakoみさこ · this page

三三子

2 source-recorded readings

Misakoみさこ · this pageMimikoみみこ

実三子

2 source-recorded readings

Misakoみさこ · this pageMimikoみみこ

海砂子

2 source-recorded readings

MiokoみおこMisakoみさこ · this page

深湖

2 source-recorded readings

TōkoとおこMisakoみさこ · this page

満桜子

2 source-recorded readings

MiokoみおこMisakoみさこ · this page

美三子

2 source-recorded readings

Misakoみさこ · this pageMimikoみみこ

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 Misako 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
子	child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM	102	0	102	0	3	い, き, ぎ, く +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
美	beauty, beautiful	28	28	0	0	9	はる, よし, よしみ, り	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
沙	sand	17	0	0	17	7	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
実	reality, truth, seed	16	16	0	0	8	ぐみ, さね	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
三	three	13	11	0	3	3	か, さ, さい, さえ +11	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
佐	assistant, help	11	0	0	11	7	すけ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
咲	blossom, bloom	8	0	0	8	9	さ, さき	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
紗	gauze, gossamer	8	0	0	8	10	たえ, すず	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
未	un-, not yet, hitherto	8	8	0	0	5	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
砂	sand	7	0	0	7	9	いさ, ご	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6
碧	blue, green	6	6	0	0	14	みどり, あお, たま	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
早	early, fast	5	0	0	5	6	さか, さわ, そ, わ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1

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

みさこ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

みKanaさKanaこKana

Exact written form

ミサコ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ

Characters in order

ミKanaサKanaコKana

Exact written form

みさ子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

みKanaさKana子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

ミサ子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ

Characters in order

ミKanaサKana子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三三子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this pageMimikoみみこ

Characters in order

三three三three子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三佐子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

三three佐assistant, help子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三咲子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

三three咲blossom, bloom子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三山子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

三three山mountain子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三左子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

三three左left子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

三更子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Misakoみさこ · this page

Characters in order

三three更grow late, night watch子child, sign of the rat

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 109. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Misako 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.

子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM102 of 109 analyzed forms 美beauty, beautiful28 of 109 analyzed forms 沙sand17 of 109 analyzed forms 実reality, truth, seed16 of 109 analyzed forms 三three13 of 109 analyzed forms 佐assistant, help11 of 109 analyzed forms 咲blossom, bloom8 of 109 analyzed forms 紗gauze, gossamer8 of 109 analyzed forms 未un-, not yet, hitherto8 of 109 analyzed forms 砂sand7 of 109 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Misako

109 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading みさこ. 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.

みさこ

みさこ · Misako

Katakana ミサコMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Misako

Extended source depth

How to read Misako

What can Misako mean?

みさこ

ミサコ

みさ子

ミサ子

三三子

三佐子

三咲子

三山子

三左子

三更子

三沙子

三砂子

How to read these meanings

How Misako is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Misako

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Misako spellings

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

みさこ

ミサコ

みさ子

ミサ子

三三子

三佐子

三咲子

三山子

三左子

三更子

Kanji recurring across Misako spellings

Explore written forms of Misako

みさこ

ミサコ

みさ子

ミサ子

三三子

三佐子

三咲子

三山子

三左子

三更子

三沙子

三砂子

三紗子

三艸子

三茶子

充早子

光佐子

光咲子

光沙子

光砂子

味沙子

好佐子

実三子

実佐子

実咲子

実妙子

実幸子

実彩子

実才子

実抄子

実沙子

実沙瑚

実爽子

実真子

実砂子

実紗子

実茶子

実賛子

實佐子

岬子

巳佐子

巳紗子

幹咲子

幹沙子

弥佐子