group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Saichirō
佐一朗
Male-classified given-name records.
さいちろうサイチロウSaichirō
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings16 Source spelling/reading rows16 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 Saichirō
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: Saichirou. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
5 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Saichirō 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 “Saichirō”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
佐一朗
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
佐一郎
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
佐市郎
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
作一朗
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
作一郎
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
嵯一郎
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
左一朗
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
左一郎
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
早一朗
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
早一郎
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
沙一朗
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
沙一郎
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 16. 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 Saichirō 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.
さいちろう
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
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.
さいちろう in the imported JMnedict corpus
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| さいちろうSaichirō | 1616 source rows | male 16source rows · distinct forms: male 16 | 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 Saichirō
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.
15–23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| さいちろう | Saichirō | 5 | 16 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
一郎8 analyzed forms一朗7 analyzed forms佐一2 analyzed forms作一2 analyzed forms左一2 analyzed forms早一2 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?
2 of 16 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
佐一郎
2 source-recorded readings
SaīchirōさいいちろうSaichirōさいちろう · this page
作一郎
2 source-recorded readings
Saichirōさいちろう · this pageSakuichirōさくいちろう
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 Saichirō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 一 | one, one radical (no.1) | 15 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 1 | かず, い, いっ, いる +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 郎 | son, counter for sons | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | いら, お, とう, もん +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 朗 | clear, bright, distinct | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 佐 | assistant, help | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | すけ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 作 | make, production, prepare | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | くり, さか, さっ, づくり +4 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 左 | left | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | そ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 早 | early, fast | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | さか, さわ, そ, わ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 沙 | sand | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 砂 | sand | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | いさ, ご | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 紗 | gauze, gossamer | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | たえ, すず | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 市 | market, city, town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | い, ち | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 嵯 | steep, craggy, rugged | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
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
佐一朗
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
佐一郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
SaīchirōさいいちろうSaichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
佐市郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
作一朗
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
作一郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this pageSakuichirōさくいちろう
Characters in order
Exact written form
嵯一郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
左一朗
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
左一郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
早一朗
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
早一郎
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Saichirōさいちろう · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 16. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Saichirō 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.
一one, one radical (no.1)15 of 16 analyzed forms郎son, counter for sons9 of 16 analyzed forms朗clear, bright, distinct7 of 16 analyzed forms佐assistant, help3 of 16 analyzed forms作make, production, prepare2 of 16 analyzed forms左left2 of 16 analyzed forms早early, fast2 of 16 analyzed forms沙sand2 of 16 analyzed forms砂sand2 of 16 analyzed forms紗gauze, gossamer2 of 16 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Saichirō
16 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading さいちろう. 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.
佐一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
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佐一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
佐市郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
作一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
作一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
嵯一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
左一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
左一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
早一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
早一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
沙一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
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沙一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
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砂一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
砂一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
紗一朗
さいちろう · Saichirō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
紗一郎
さいちろう · Saichirō
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Spelling comparator
Compare Saichirō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 佐一朗 | さいちろう | 佐 — assistant, help · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 佐一郎 | さいちろう | 佐 — assistant, help · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 佐市郎 | さいちろう | 佐 — assistant, help · 市 — market, city · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 作一朗 | さいちろう | 作 — make, production · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 作一郎 | さいちろう | 作 — make, production · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 嵯一郎 | さいちろう | 嵯 — steep, craggy · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 左一朗 | さいちろう | 左 — left · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 左一郎 | さいちろう | 左 — left · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 早一朗 | さいちろう | 早 — early, fast · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 早一郎 | さいちろう | 早 — early, fast · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 沙一朗 | さいちろう | 沙 — sand · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 沙一郎 | さいちろう | 沙 — sand · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 砂一朗 | さいちろう | 砂 — sand · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 砂一郎 | さいちろう | 砂 — sand · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 紗一朗 | さいちろう | 紗 — gauze, gossamer · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 朗 — clear, bright | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 紗一郎 | さいちろう | 紗 — gauze, gossamer · 一 — one, one radical (no.1) · 郎 — son, counter for sons | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Saichirō 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
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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.
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19 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
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8 recorded spellings
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6 recorded spellings
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6 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Saichirō
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
Azusa
一佐作左早沙砂紗
8 shared kanji · 108 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIsako
一佐作左早沙砂紗
8 shared kanji · 81 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSaeko
佐作左早朗沙砂紗
8 shared kanji · 74 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSae
佐作左早朗沙砂紗
8 shared kanji · 61 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSatarō
佐左早朗沙砂紗郎
8 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipArisa
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 174 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkisa
佐作早朗沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 103 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSaki
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 95 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSakiko
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 94 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAsana
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 86 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMisako
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 54 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyasa
佐作左早沙砂紗
7 shared kanji · 54 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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