group-level written forms
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
How to read Rīna
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: Riina. 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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What can Rīna 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 “Rīna”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
リーナ
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.
りいな
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.
利衣奈
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.
吏鮪楠
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.
夢七
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.
季衣那
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.
律惟奈
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.
李伊菜
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.
李衣梨
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.
梨以菜
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.
梨依奈
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.
梨李奈
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.
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 31. 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.
How Rīna 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.
りいな · りーな · リーナ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
recorded spellings
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.
りいな in the imported JMnedict corpus
30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| りーなRīna | 33 source rows | female 3source rows · distinct forms: female 3 | 00 source rows |
| りいなRīna | 2930 source rows | female 30source rows · distinct forms: female 29 | 00 source rows |
| りーなRīna | 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.
Source-supplied text attached to Rīna 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 |
|---|---|---|
| リーナ | りーな | Lina |
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.
33 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Corpus structure behind Rīna
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.
14–41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| りいな | Rīna | 3 | 29 |
| りーな | Rīna | 3 | 3 |
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.
Can the same writing be read another way?
5 of 31 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
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.
How recurring characters function across Rīna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 奈 | Nara, what? | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 衣 | garment, clothes, dressing | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 梨 | pear tree | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | か | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 里 | ri, village, parent's home | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | さ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 菜 | vegetable, side dish, greens | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 莉 | jasmine | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 李 | plum | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | もも, い | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 伊 | Italy, that one | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | これ, ただ, よし, いと +1 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 理 | logic, arrangement, reason | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 那 | what? | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | とも, やす | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 惟 | consider, reflect, think | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | ただ, よし, のぶ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 依 | reliant, depend on, consequently | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | よ, より | 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.
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.
リーナ
りいな
利衣奈
吏鮪楠
夢七
季衣那
律惟奈
李伊菜
李衣梨
梨以菜
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 31. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Kanji recurring across Rīna 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.
Explore written forms of Rīna
29 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading りいな. 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.
リーナ
リーナ · Rīna
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
りいな
りいな · Rīna
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
利衣奈
りいな · Rīna
吏鮪楠
りいな · Rīna
夢七
りーな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
夢七
りいな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
季衣那
りいな · Rīna
律惟奈
りいな · Rīna
李伊菜
りいな · Rīna
李衣梨
りいな · Rīna
梨以菜
りいな · Rīna
梨依奈
りいな · Rīna
梨李奈
りいな · Rīna
梨衣奈
りいな · Rīna
梨衣菜
りいな · Rīna
理也
りいな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
理伊奈
りいな · Rīna
理衣奈
りいな · Rīna
璃衣奈
りいな · Rīna
莉伊奈
りいな · Rīna
莉維奈
りいな · Rīna
莉衣奈
りいな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
莉衣菜
りいな · Rīna
里依奈
りいな · Rīna
里唯奈
りいな · Rīna
里惟奈
りいな · Rīna
里維奈
りいな · Rīna
里菜
りーな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
里衣那
りいな · Rīna
鈴奈
りいな · Rīna
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
鈴音鳴
りいな · Rīna
麗衣樹
りいな · Rīna
Compare Rīna 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| リーナ | リーナ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| りいな | りいな | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 利衣奈 | りいな | 利 — profit, advantage · 衣 — garment, clothes · 奈 — Nara, what? | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 吏鮪楠 | りいな | 吏 — officer, an official · 鮪 — tuna · 楠 — camphor tree | 36 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 夢七 | りーな | 夢 — dream, vision · 七 — seven | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 季衣那 | りいな | 季 — seasons · 衣 — garment, clothes · 那 — what? | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 律惟奈 | りいな | 律 — rhythm, law · 惟 — consider, reflect · 奈 — Nara, what? | 28 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 李伊菜 | りいな | 李 — plum · 伊 — Italy, that one · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 李衣梨 | りいな | 李 — plum · 衣 — garment, clothes · 梨 — pear tree | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梨以菜 | りいな | 梨 — pear tree · 以 — by means of, because · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 27 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梨依奈 | りいな | 梨 — pear tree · 依 — reliant, depend on · 奈 — Nara, what? | 27 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梨李奈 | りいな | 梨 — pear tree · 李 — plum · 奈 — Nara, what? | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梨衣奈 | りいな | 梨 — pear tree · 衣 — garment, clothes · 奈 — Nara, what? | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梨衣菜 | りいな | 梨 — pear tree · 衣 — garment, clothes · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 28 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 理也 | りいな | 理 — logic, arrangement · 也 — to be (classical) | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 理伊奈 | りいな | 理 — logic, arrangement · 伊 — Italy, that one · 奈 — Nara, what? | 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 Rīna 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.
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8 shared kanji · 38 matching source-recorded spellings
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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.
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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