Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Shihori

しほり

Given-name classification varies across source records.

しほりシホリShihori

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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 spellings34

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows34

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Shihori

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しほり

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formシホリ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationShihori

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

Mora segmentationし · ほ · り

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 Shihori 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 “Shihori”, 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

しほり

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

しKana characterほKana characterりKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

しほ里

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

しKana characterほKana character里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

信保里

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

信faith, truth, fidelity保protect, guarantee, keep里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

信穂里

Characters and loaded glosses

信faith, truth, fidelity穂ear, ear (grain), head里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

偲穂里

Characters and loaded glosses

偲recollect, remember穂ear, ear (grain), head里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

史保里

Characters and loaded glosses

史history, chronicle保protect, guarantee, keep里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

史帆理

Characters and loaded glosses

史history, chronicle帆sail理logic, arrangement, reason

Kanji spelling

史帆里

Characters and loaded glosses

史history, chronicle帆sail里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

史歩里

Characters and loaded glosses

史history, chronicle歩walk, counter for steps里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

史穂里

Characters and loaded glosses

史history, chronicle穂ear, ear (grain), head里ri, village, parent's home

Kanji spelling

士保理

Characters and loaded glosses

士gentleman, scholar, samurai保protect, guarantee, keep理logic, arrangement, reason

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

志ほり

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

志intention, plan, resolveほKana characterりKana character

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 34. 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 Shihori 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

しほり

Kanji-based spellings33

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 forms1

recorded spelling

3-kanji forms30

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

しほり in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms34

34 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 31 · unspecified 3

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
しほりShihori	3434 source rows	female 31 · unspecified 3source rows · distinct forms: female 31 · unspecified 3	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.

JMnedict source text

Source-supplied text attached to Shihori 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
しほり	しほり	Shiori

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.

34 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Shihori

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 data33

7–35 strokes observed span

Median total strokes26

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms33

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
しほり	Shihori	3	34

Recurring first-position kanji

志intention, plan11 forms 史history, chronicle5 forms 紫purple, violet4 forms 詩poem, poetry3 forms 信faith, truth2 forms 偲recollect, remember1 form

Recurring final-position kanji

里ri, village21 forms 理logic, arrangement5 forms 梨pear tree2 forms 利profit, advantage2 forms 凛cold, strict1 form 吏officer, an official1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

穂里7 analyzed forms 保里5 analyzed forms 帆里4 analyzed forms 歩里3 analyzed forms 志保3 analyzed forms 志穂3 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?

8 of 34 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 checked34

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings8

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading26

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set2

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

志ほり

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

志保理

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

志保里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

志桜里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

志穂里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

紫保里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

紫穂里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · this page

詩穂里

2 source-recorded readings

ShioriしおりShihoriしほり · 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 Shihori 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
里	ri, village, parent's home	21	0	21	0	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
志	intention, plan, resolve	11	11	0	0	7	じん, べ, べし, ゆき	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
穂	ear, ear (grain), head	10	0	0	10	15	お, こう, のり, ほい	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
保	protect, guarantee, keep	9	0	0	9	9	う, お, ぶ, もり +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
帆	sail	7	0	0	7	6	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
史	history, chronicle	5	5	0	0	5	あきら, あや, お, こ +7	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5
理	logic, arrangement, reason	5	0	5	0	11	あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
紫	purple, violet	4	4	0	0	12	さい, ゆかり	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
歩	walk, counter for steps	3	0	0	3	8	あ, ゆき, ゆみ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
詩	poem, poetry	3	3	0	0	13	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
信	faith, truth, fidelity	2	2	0	0	9	し, しが, しな, しの +5	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
梨	pear tree	2	0	2	0	11	か	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4

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

しほり

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

しKanaほKanaりKana

Exact written form

しほ里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

しKanaほKana里ri, village

Exact written form

信保里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

信faith, truth保protect, guarantee里ri, village

Exact written form

信穂里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

信faith, truth穂ear, ear (grain)里ri, village

Exact written form

偲穂里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

偲recollect, remember穂ear, ear (grain)里ri, village

Exact written form

史保里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

史history, chronicle保protect, guarantee里ri, village

Exact written form

史帆理

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

史history, chronicle帆sail理logic, arrangement

Exact written form

史帆里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

史history, chronicle帆sail里ri, village

Exact written form

史歩里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

史history, chronicle歩walk, counter for steps里ri, village

Exact written form

史穂里

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Shihoriしほり · this page

Characters in order

史history, chronicle穂ear, ear (grain)里ri, village

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 34. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Shihori 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.

里ri, village, parent's home21 of 34 analyzed forms 志intention, plan, resolve11 of 34 analyzed forms 穂ear, ear (grain), head10 of 34 analyzed forms 保protect, guarantee, keep9 of 34 analyzed forms 帆sail7 of 34 analyzed forms 史history, chronicle5 of 34 analyzed forms 理logic, arrangement, reason5 of 34 analyzed forms 紫purple, violet4 of 34 analyzed forms 歩walk, counter for steps3 of 34 analyzed forms 詩poem, poetry3 of 34 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Shihori

34 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading しほり. 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.

しほり

しほり · Shihori

Katakana シホリMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Shihori

Extended source depth

How to read Shihori

What can Shihori mean?

しほり

しほ里

信保里

信穂里

偲穂里

史保里

史帆理

史帆里

史歩里

史穂里

士保理

志ほり

How to read these meanings

How Shihori is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Source-supplied text attached to Shihori records

Corpus structure behind Shihori

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Shihori spellings

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

しほり

しほ里

信保里

信穂里

偲穂里

史保里

史帆理

史帆里

史歩里

史穂里

Kanji recurring across Shihori spellings

Explore written forms of Shihori

しほり

しほ里

信保里

信穂里

偲穂里

史保里

史帆理

史帆里

史歩里

史穂里

士保理

志ほり

志保梨

志保理

志保里

志帆理

志帆里

志桜里

志歩里

志穂利

志穂理

志穂里

支帆梨

梓歩里

汐凛

滋保里

糸穂里

紫保里

紫帆里

紫穂吏

紫穂里

詩保利

詩帆里

詩穂里

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What does Shihori mean?

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