group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Mizumi
みずみ
Given-name classification varies across source records.
みずみミズミMizumi
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings15 Source spelling/reading rows15 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 Mizumi
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: Mizumi. 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 Mizumi 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 “Mizumi”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
みずみ
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ずKana characterみKana character
Kanji spelling
実澄
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
水実
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
水海
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
水澄
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
水純
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
水美
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
海実
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
海美
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
湖実
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
湖美
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
瑞三
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 15. 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 Mizumi 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.
みずみ
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
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.
みずみ in the imported JMnedict corpus
0 source spelling/reading rows
14 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| みすみMisumi | 2932 source rows | female 31 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 28 · unspecified 1 | 00 source rows |
| みずみMizumi | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 1314 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 Mizumi
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.
12–23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| みずみ | Mizumi | 3 | 15 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
9 of 15 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
海美
水海
瑞美
5 source-recorded readings
水美
実澄
2 source-recorded readings
MisumiみすみMizumiみずみ · this page
水純
2 source-recorded readings
MisumiみすみMizumiみずみ · this page
海実
2 source-recorded readings
KaimiかいみMizumiみずみ · this page
湖美
2 source-recorded readings
HiromiひろみMizumiみずみ · 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 Mizumi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 実 | reality, truth, seed | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ぐみ, さね | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 水 | water | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | うず, ずみ, つ, ど +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 美 | beauty, beautiful | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | はる, よし, よしみ, り | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 瑞 | congratulations | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | たま, ず, みつ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 海 | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 澄 | lucidity, be clear, clear | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | きよ, すす, すみ, み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 湖 | lake | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | うみ, み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 純 | genuine, purity, innocence | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | あつ, すみ, み, やすし +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 三 | three | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | か, さ, さい, さえ +11 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 珠 | pearl, gem, jewel | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | す, とも, ま, み | 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
みずみ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
みKanaずKanaみKana
Exact written form
実澄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
MisumiみすみMizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 実澄 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
水実
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 水実 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
水海
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
水澄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
水純
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
MisumiみすみMizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
水美
Characters in order
Exact written form
海実
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KaimiかいみMizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
海美
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
湖実
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mizumiみずみ · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 15. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Mizumi 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.
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Mizumi
15 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading みずみ. 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.
みずみ
みずみ · Mizumi
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
実澄
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
水実
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
水海
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
水澄
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
水純
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
水美
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
海実
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
海美
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
湖実
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
湖美
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
瑞三
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
瑞実
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
瑞珠
みずみ · Mizumi
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
瑞美
みずみ · Mizumi
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.
Spelling comparator
Compare Mizumi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| みずみ | みずみ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 実澄 | みずみ | 実 — reality, truth · 澄 — lucidity, be clear | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 水実 | みずみ | 水 — water · 実 — reality, truth | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 水海 | みずみ | 水 — water · 海 | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 水澄 | みずみ | 水 — water · 澄 — lucidity, be clear | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 水純 | みずみ | 水 — water · 純 — genuine, purity | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 水美 | みずみ | 水 — water · 美 — beauty, beautiful | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 海実 | みずみ | 海 · 実 — reality, truth | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 海美 | みずみ | 海 · 美 — beauty, beautiful | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 湖実 | みずみ | 湖 — lake · 実 — reality, truth | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 湖美 | みずみ | 湖 — lake · 美 — beauty, beautiful | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 瑞三 | みずみ | 瑞 — congratulations · 三 — three | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 瑞実 | みずみ | 瑞 — congratulations · 実 — reality, truth | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 瑞珠 | みずみ | 瑞 — congratulations · 珠 — pearl, gem | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 瑞美 | みずみ | 瑞 — congratulations · 美 — beauty, beautiful | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Mizumi 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 みず
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.
Given name · mixed records · limited reference
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170 recorded spellings
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62 recorded spellings
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56 recorded spellings
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50 recorded spellings
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24 recorded spellings
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17 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMizuha
17 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMizuko
16 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMizuna
16 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMisue
10 recorded spellings
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10 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceMizu
9 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Mizumi
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
Izumi
実水海湖澄珠瑞純美
9 shared kanji · 107 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMizuki
三実水海湖澄珠瑞美
9 shared kanji · 103 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKazumi
三実水海澄珠瑞純美
9 shared kanji · 92 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMasumi
三実水海澄珠純美
8 shared kanji · 144 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAzumi
実水海澄珠瑞純美
8 shared kanji · 101 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMisato
三実水海湖澄珠美
8 shared kanji · 81 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTomomi
三実水海湖珠瑞美
8 shared kanji · 77 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMisako
三実水海湖珠瑞美
8 shared kanji · 62 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMizuho
三実水湖澄珠瑞美
8 shared kanji · 40 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipHiromi
三実水海湖珠美
7 shared kanji · 146 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYoshimi
三実水海珠純美
7 shared kanji · 145 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMisaki
三実水海珠瑞美
7 shared kanji · 137 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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