group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
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 Shiona
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: Shiona. 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 Shiona 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 “Shiona”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
例汐奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
信恩奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
史折奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
史織菜
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
志央奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
思桜菜
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
栞央奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
栞萌
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
汐夏
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
汐奈
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
汐那
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.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
潮南
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 Shiona 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.
しおな
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
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.
しおな in the imported JMnedict corpus
15 source spelling/reading rows
1 source spelling/reading row
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| しおなShiona | 1515 source rows | female 15source rows · distinct forms: female 15 | 11 source row |
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 Shiona
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.
13–34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| しおな | Shiona | 3 | 15 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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?
3 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
汐那
汐夏
2 source-recorded readings
Shionaしおな · this pageYūkaゆうか
汐奈
2 source-recorded readings
KiyonaきよなShionaしおな · 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 Shiona 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? | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 央 | center, middle | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | あきら, え, お, さと +6 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 汐 | eventide, tide, salt water | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | いそ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 菜 | vegetable, side dish, greens | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 史 | history, chronicle | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | あきら, あや, お, こ +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 栞 | bookmark, guidebook | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 例 | example, custom, usage | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 信 | faith, truth, fidelity | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | し, しが, しな, しの +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 恩 | grace, kindness, goodness | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | めぐみ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 折 | fold, break, fracture | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | せき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 織 | weave, fabric | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | こおり, こり, のり | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 志 | intention, plan, resolve | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | じん, べ, べし, ゆき | 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
例汐奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
信恩奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
史折奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
史織菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
志央奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
思桜菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
栞央奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
栞萌
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
汐夏
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shionaしおな · this pageYūkaゆうか
Characters in order
Exact written form
汐奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KiyonaきよなShionaしおな · 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 Shiona 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 Shiona
15 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading しおな. 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.
例汐奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
信恩奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
史折奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
史織菜
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
志央奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
思桜菜
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
栞央奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
栞萌
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
汐夏
しおな · Shiona
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.
汐奈
しおな · Shiona
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.
汐那
しおな · Shiona
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.
潮南
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
糸央奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
紫央奈
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
詩央菜
しおな · Shiona
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Shiona 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 例汐奈 | しおな | 例 — example, custom · 汐 — eventide, tide · 奈 — Nara, what? | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 信恩奈 | しおな | 信 — faith, truth · 恩 — grace, kindness · 奈 — Nara, what? | 27 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 史折奈 | しおな | 史 — history, chronicle · 折 — fold, break · 奈 — Nara, what? | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 史織菜 | しおな | 史 — history, chronicle · 織 — weave, fabric · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 34 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 志央奈 | しおな | 志 — intention, plan · 央 — center, middle · 奈 — Nara, what? | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 思桜菜 | しおな | 思 — think · 桜 — cherry · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 30 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 栞央奈 | しおな | 栞 — bookmark, guidebook · 央 — center, middle · 奈 — Nara, what? | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 栞萌 | しおな | 栞 — bookmark, guidebook · 萌 — show symptoms of, sprout | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 汐夏 | しおな | 汐 — eventide, tide · 夏 — summer | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 汐奈 | しおな | 汐 — eventide, tide · 奈 — Nara, what? | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 汐那 | しおな | 汐 — eventide, tide · 那 — what? | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 潮南 | しおな | 潮 — tide, salt water · 南 — south | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 糸央奈 | しおな | 糸 — thread · 央 — center, middle · 奈 — Nara, what? | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 紫央奈 | しおな | 紫 — purple, violet · 央 — center, middle · 奈 — Nara, what? | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 詩央菜 | しおな | 詩 — poem, poetry · 央 — center, middle · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 29 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Shiona 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.
Given name · female · limited reference
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178 recorded spellings
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80 recorded spellings
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47 recorded spellings
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33 recorded spellings
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21 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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11 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceShioka
9 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · limited referenceJion
5 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Shiona
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
Shiori
信史央折栞汐
6 shared kanji · 58 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShion
史央恩栞汐
5 shared kanji · 19 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShiho
信史央栞汐
5 shared kanji · 13 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShiena
信史奈汐菜
5 shared kanji · 11 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNaoko
央奈恩菜
4 shared kanji · 42 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipReona
央奈恩菜
4 shared kanji · 36 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSena
央奈汐菜
4 shared kanji · 23 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShinako
信史奈菜
4 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShio
信史央汐
4 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShiomi
史央栞汐
4 shared kanji · 13 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShihona
史奈栞菜
4 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShinano
信史奈菜
4 shared kanji · 5 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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