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Japanese given name

Mutsuki

むつき

Given-name classification varies across source records.

むつきムツキMutsuki
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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 spellings28

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows28

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Mutsuki

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むつき

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formムツキ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationMutsuki

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

Mora segmentationむ · つ · き

3 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

Audio note: the play button uses Japanese text-to-speech provided by the visitor’s browser/device. It is a convenience preview, not a recorded native-speaker pronunciation or pitch-accent authority.

Meaning by written form

What can Mutsuki 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 “Mutsuki”, 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

むつき

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
むKana characterつKana characterきKana character
Kanji spelling

一月

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

六城

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

六月

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

六槻

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

務月

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

夢希

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.

Kanji spelling

夢月

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

無月

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 28. 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 Mutsuki 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

むつき

Kanji-based spellings27

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

1-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms21

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms4

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

むつき in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms28

28 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 27 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
むつきMutsuki2828 source rowsfemale 27 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 27 · unspecified 100 source rows
むづきMuzuki00 source rows—source rows · distinct forms: —33 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 Mutsuki

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 data27

5–38 strokes observed span

Median total strokes20

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms26

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
夢津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?

7 of 28 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 checked28

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings7

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading21

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set8

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

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 Mutsuki 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.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
睦intimate, friendly, harmonious111000113むつ, ちか, よし, あつ +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
月month, moon808004おと, がっ, す, ずき +1Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
夢dream, vision, illusion5500013—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
六six330004く, むつ, ろっ, ろつJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
希hope, beg, request303007のぞ, のぞみJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
津haven, port, harbor200209ず, ち, とJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
都capital, metropolis2002011—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
季seasons202008すえ, としJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
一one, one radical (no.1)110001かず, い, いっ, いる +7Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
城castle101009いく, がき, き, くに +7Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
槻Zelkova tree1010015—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
務task, duties1100011つかさ, みJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5

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

むつき

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Mutsukiむつき · this page
Characters in order
むKanaつKanaきKana
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
JūnじゅーんJunじゅんMutsukiむつき · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence

The exact sequence 六月 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 28. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Mutsuki 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 Mutsuki

28 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading むつき. 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.

むつき

むつき · Mutsuki

Katakana ムツキMorae 3Strokes —

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

襁

むつき · Mutsuki

Katakana ムツキMorae 3Strokes 16
Spelling comparator

Compare Mutsuki 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.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
むつきむつきKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
一月むつき一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 月 — month, moon5All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
六城むつき六 — six · 城 — castle13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
六月むつき六 — six · 月 — month, moon8All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
六槻むつき六 — six · 槻 — Zelkova tree19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
務月むつき務 — task, duties · 月 — month, moon15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
夢希むつき夢 — dream, vision · 希 — hope, beg20All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
夢月むつき夢 — dream, vision · 月 — month, moon17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
夢津来むつき夢 — dream, vision · 津 — haven, port · 来 — come, due29All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
夢津記むつき夢 — dream, vision · 津 — haven, port · 記 — scribe, account32All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
夢都希むつき夢 — dream, vision · 都 — capital, metropolis · 希 — hope, beg31All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
無月むつき無 — nothingness, none · 月 — month, moon16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
眸月むつき眸 — pupil of the eye · 月 — month, moon15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
睦むつき睦 — intimate, friendly13All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
睦包むつき睦 — intimate, friendly · 包 — wrap, pack up18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
睦喜むつき睦 — intimate, friendly · 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in25All 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 Mutsuki 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 むつ

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 Mutsuki

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.

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Where to go next from Mutsuki

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

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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