group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Tōzō
東三
Given-name gender label not specified in these source records.
とうぞうトウゾウTōzō
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 Tōzō
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: Touzou. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
4 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Tōzō 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 “Tōzō”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
東三
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.
Kanji spelling
東蔵
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
桐造
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
棠三
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
澄三
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
登三
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
統三
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
苳三
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
董三
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.
Kanji spelling
藤三
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.
Kanji spelling
藤蔵
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
藤造
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 Tōzō 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.
とうぞう
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.
とうぞう in the imported JMnedict corpus
19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| とうぞうTōzō | 1919 source rows | unspecified 19source rows · distinct forms: unspecified 19 | 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 Tōzō
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.
11–33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| とうぞう | Tōzō | 4 | 16 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
1 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
澄三
2 source-recorded readings
SumizōすみぞうTōzōとうぞう · 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 Tōzō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 三 | three | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | か, さ, さい, さえ +11 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 蔵 | storehouse, hide, own | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | くらし, くらん, くろう, さし +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 藤 | wisteria | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ぞう, と, ふじゅ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 東 | east | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | あい, あがり, あずま, あづま +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 造 | create, make, structure | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ずくり, づくり, み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 陶 | pottery, porcelain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | す | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 桐 | paulownia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ひさ, き | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 棠 | wild pear tree, crabapple tree | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 澄 | lucidity, be clear, clear | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | きよ, すす, すみ, み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 登 | ascend, climb up | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | たか, のぼし, のぼり, のり | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 統 | overall, relationship, ruling | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | のり, むね | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 苳 | butterbur, bog rhubarb | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
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
東三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 東三 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
東蔵
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
桐造
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
棠三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
澄三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
SumizōすみぞうTōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
登三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
統三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
苳三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
董三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
Exact written form
藤三
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tōzōとうぞう · this page
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 Tōzō 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 Tōzō
16 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading とうぞう. 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.
東三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
東蔵
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
桐造
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
棠三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
澄三
とうぞう · Tōzō
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.
登三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
統三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
苳三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
董三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
藤三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
藤蔵
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
藤造
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
錬蔵
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
陶三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
陶蔵
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
騰三
とうぞう · Tōzō
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Tōzō 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 東三 | とうぞう | 東 — east · 三 — three | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 東蔵 | とうぞう | 東 — east · 蔵 — storehouse, hide | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 桐造 | とうぞう | 桐 — paulownia · 造 — create, make | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 棠三 | とうぞう | 棠 — wild pear tree, crabapple tree · 三 — three | 15 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 澄三 | とうぞう | 澄 — lucidity, be clear · 三 — three | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 登三 | とうぞう | 登 — ascend, climb up · 三 — three | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 統三 | とうぞう | 統 — overall, relationship · 三 — three | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 苳三 | とうぞう | 苳 — butterbur, bog rhubarb · 三 — three | 11 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 董三 | とうぞう | 董 — correct · 三 — three | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 藤三 | とうぞう | 藤 — wisteria · 三 — three | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 藤蔵 | とうぞう | 藤 — wisteria · 蔵 — storehouse, hide | 33 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 藤造 | とうぞう | 藤 — wisteria · 造 — create, make | 28 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 錬蔵 | とうぞう | 錬 — tempering, refine · 蔵 — storehouse, hide | 31 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 陶三 | とうぞう | 陶 — pottery, porcelain · 三 — three | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 陶蔵 | とうぞう | 陶 — pottery, porcelain · 蔵 — storehouse, hide | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 騰三 | とうぞう | 騰 — leaping up, jumping up · 三 — three | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Tōzō 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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18 recorded spellings
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17 recorded spellings
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16 recorded spellings
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15 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Tōzō
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
Midori
三東桐澄登
5 shared kanji · 22 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTōko
東桐登藤陶
5 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipToshizō
三登蔵造
4 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTomiko
三東登藤
4 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTomio
三東登藤
4 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSatoko
三東桐登
4 shared kanji · 12 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTōji
東登藤陶
4 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipSumiko
三澄登陶
4 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTōichi
東桐登藤
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTōtarō
東登藤陶
4 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTōshū
東棠藤陶
4 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipToyozō
三東蔵造
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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