group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Shōta
信夫
Given-name classification varies across source records.
しょうたショウタShōta
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings19 Source spelling/reading rows19 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 Shōta
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: Shouta. 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 Shōta 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 “Shōta”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
信夫
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
庄太
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
彰太
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
捷太
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
昇大
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
昇太
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
昌太
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
星太
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
昭太
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
昭汰
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
松太
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
正太
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 19. 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 Shōta 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.
しょうた
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.
しょうた in the imported JMnedict corpus
22 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| しょうたShōta | 2222 source rows | male 3 · unspecified 19source rows · distinct forms: male 3 · unspecified 19 | 00 source rows |
| しょうだShōda | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 3540 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 Shōta
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.
9–24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| しょうた | Shōta | 3 | 19 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
6 of 19 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
正太
4 source-recorded readings
信夫
2 source-recorded readings
Shōtaしょうた · this pageNobuoのぶお
昌太
2 source-recorded readings
Shōtaしょうた · this pageMasataまさた
昭太
2 source-recorded readings
AkihiroあきひろShōtaしょうた · this page
松太
2 source-recorded readings
Shōtaしょうた · this pageMatsutaまつた
章大
2 source-recorded readings
AkioあきおShōtaしょうた · 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 Shōta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 太 | plump, thick, big around | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | おお, たか, ひろ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 昇 | rise up | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | しゅう, のり | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 大 | large, big | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | うふ, お, おう, た +9 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 昭 | shining, bright | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | あき, あきら, かず, かずみ +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 汰 | washing, sieving, filtering | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 章 | badge, chapter, composition | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | あき, あきら, あや, ふみ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 信 | faith, truth, fidelity | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | し, しが, しな, しの +5 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 夫 | husband, man | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | お, と, ゆう, よ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 庄 | level, in the country, manor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | まさ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 彰 | patent, clear | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | あき, あきら | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 捷 | victory, fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | かつ | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 昌 | prosperous, bright, clear | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | まさ, まさし, よし, あき +4 | 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
信夫
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this pageNobuoのぶお
Characters in order
Exact written form
庄太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 庄太 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
彰太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 彰太 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
捷太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昇大
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昇太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昌太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this pageMasataまさた
Characters in order
Exact written form
星太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昭太
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AkihiroあきひろShōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昭汰
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Shōtaしょうた · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 19. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Shōta 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 Shōta
19 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading しょうた. 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.
信夫
しょうた · Shōta
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.
庄太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
彰太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
捷太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
昇大
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
昇太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
昌太
しょうた · Shōta
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.
星太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
昭太
しょうた · Shōta
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.
昭汰
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
松太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
正太
しょうた · Shōta
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.
渉太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
照太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
章大
しょうた · Shōta
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.
章太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
翔太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
鐘太
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
韶汰
しょうた · Shōta
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
Spelling comparator
Compare Shōta 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 信夫 | しょうた | 信 — faith, truth · 夫 — husband, man | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 庄太 | しょうた | 庄 — level, in the country · 太 — plump, thick | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 彰太 | しょうた | 彰 — patent, clear · 太 — plump, thick | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 捷太 | しょうた | 捷 — victory, fast · 太 — plump, thick | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昇大 | しょうた | 昇 — rise up · 大 — large, big | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昇太 | しょうた | 昇 — rise up · 太 — plump, thick | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昌太 | しょうた | 昌 — prosperous, bright · 太 — plump, thick | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 星太 | しょうた | 星 — star, spot · 太 — plump, thick | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昭太 | しょうた | 昭 — shining, bright · 太 — plump, thick | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昭汰 | しょうた | 昭 — shining, bright · 汰 — washing, sieving | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 松太 | しょうた | 松 — pine tree · 太 — plump, thick | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 正太 | しょうた | 正 — correct, justice · 太 — plump, thick | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 渉太 | しょうた | 渉 — ford, go cross · 太 — plump, thick | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 照太 | しょうた | 照 — illuminate, shine · 太 — plump, thick | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 章大 | しょうた | 章 — badge, chapter · 大 — large, big | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 章太 | しょうた | 章 — badge, chapter · 太 — plump, thick | 15 | 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 Shōta 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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90 recorded spellings
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74 recorded spellings
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58 recorded spellings
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Shōta
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
Shōtarō
大太庄彰昇昭章
7 shared kanji · 58 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōzō
太庄彰昇昭章
6 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkio
大夫彰昭章
5 shared kanji · 53 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMasao
大太夫昇昭
5 shared kanji · 44 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAkihiro
大太彰昭章
5 shared kanji · 42 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōji
庄彰昇昭章
5 shared kanji · 35 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTakao
大太夫昇章
5 shared kanji · 35 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōjirō
庄彰昇昭章
5 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōsuke
庄彰昇昭章
5 shared kanji · 20 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōgo
庄彰昇昭章
5 shared kanji · 18 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShōichirō
庄彰昇昭章
5 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTomoaki
信大彰昭章
5 shared kanji · 17 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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