group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Japanese given name
Yoshio
ヨシオ
Recorded with both male and female given-name labels across dictionary entries.
よしおヨシオYoshio
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings287 Source spelling/reading rows287 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 Yoshio
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: Yoshio. 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 Yoshio 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 “Yoshio”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
ヨシオ
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
ヨKana characterシKana characterオKana character
Kana-only spelling
よしを
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
よKana characterしKana characterをKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
よし尾
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
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
よし生
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
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
よし越
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
Kanji spelling
与史雄
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
与司夫
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
与司男
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
与四夫
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
与四雄
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
与志夫
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
与志男
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 287. 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 Yoshio 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.
よしお · ヨシオ · よしを
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
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.
よしお in the imported JMnedict corpus
286 source spelling/reading rows
10 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| よしおYoshio | 286286 source rows | male 92 · female 3 · unspecified 191source rows · distinct forms: male 92 · female 3 · unspecified 191 | 1010 source rows |
| よしをYoshio | 11 source row | female 1source rows · distinct forms: female 1 | 00 source rows |
| よしおYoshio | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 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 Yoshio 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 |
|---|---|---|
| よしを | よしを | Yoshiwo |
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.
287 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Yoshio
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.
5–32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| よしお | Yoshio | 3 | 286 |
| よしを | Yoshio | 3 | 1 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
志雄5 analyzed forms志夫4 analyzed forms志男4 analyzed forms士夫4 analyzed forms四子4 analyzed forms要志4 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?
38 of 80 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
仁夫
仁郎
6 source-recorded readings
啓夫
善朗
5 source-recorded readings
佳穂
4 source-recorded readings
克郎
4 source-recorded readings
剛雄
4 source-recorded readings
勝生
4 source-recorded readings
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 Yoshio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 夫 | husband, man | 70 | 0 | 70 | 0 | 0 | 4 | お, と, ゆう, よ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 雄 | masculine, male, hero | 65 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 12 | かつ, たけ, つよし, ゆ +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 男 | male | 55 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 7 | み | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 生 | life, genuine, birth | 32 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 5 | あさ, いき, いく, いけ +21 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 郎 | son, counter for sons | 25 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 9 | いら, お, とう, もん +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 志 | intention, plan, resolve | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 7 | じん, べ, べし, ゆき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 与 | bestow, participate in, give | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | とも, ゆ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 四 | four | 11 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | あ, つ, よつ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 芳 | perfume, balmy, favorable | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | お, かおる, は, ほ +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 士 | gentleman, scholar, samurai | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 3 | お, ま | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 佳 | excellent, beautiful, good | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | けい, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 善 | virtuous, good, goodness | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | たる, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
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
ヨシオ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
Characters in order
ヨKanaシKanaオKana
Exact written form
よしを
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしを · this page
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よKanaしKanaをKana
Exact written form
よし尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
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Exact written form
よし生
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
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Exact written form
よし越
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
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Exact written form
与史雄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
与司夫
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
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Exact written form
与司男
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
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Exact written form
与四夫
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
与四雄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yoshioよしお · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 287. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Yoshio 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.
夫husband, man70 of 287 analyzed forms雄masculine, male, hero65 of 287 analyzed forms男male55 of 287 analyzed forms生life, genuine, birth32 of 287 analyzed forms郎son, counter for sons25 of 287 analyzed forms志intention, plan, resolve16 of 287 analyzed forms与bestow, participate in, give11 of 287 analyzed forms四four11 of 287 analyzed forms芳perfume, balmy, favorable10 of 287 analyzed forms士gentleman, scholar, samurai8 of 287 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Yoshio
286 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading よしお. 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.
ヨシオ
ヨシオ · Yoshio
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
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よしを
よしを · Yoshio
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
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よし尾
よしお · Yoshio
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よし生
よしお · Yoshio
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よし越
よしお · Yoshio
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与史雄
よしお · Yoshio
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与司夫
よしお · Yoshio
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与司男
よしお · Yoshio
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与四夫
よしお · Yoshio
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与四雄
よしお · Yoshio
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与志夫
よしお · Yoshio
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与志男
よしお · Yoshio
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与志雄
よしお · Yoshio
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与止男
よしお · Yoshio
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与男
よしお · Yoshio
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与詩夫
よしお · Yoshio
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世士夫
よしお · Yoshio
世generation, world, society, public士gentleman, scholar, samurai, samurai radical (no. 33)夫husband, man
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世守男
よしお · Yoshio
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世志生
よしお · Yoshio
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世潮
よしお · Yoshio
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予志夫
よしお · Yoshio
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仁夫
よしお · Yoshio
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仁郎
よしお · Yoshio
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代志雄
よしお · Yoshio
代substitute, change, convert, replace志intention, plan, resolve, aspire雄masculine, male, hero, leader
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令雄
よしお · Yoshio
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伊男
よしお · Yoshio
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休雄
よしお · Yoshio
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余四男
よしお · Yoshio
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余志雄
よしお · Yoshio
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佳夫
よしお · Yoshio
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佳央
よしお · Yoshio
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佳歩
よしお · Yoshio
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佳生
よしお · Yoshio
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佳男
よしお · Yoshio
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佳穂
よしお · Yoshio
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佳郎
よしお · Yoshio
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佳雄
よしお · Yoshio
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依志夫
よしお · Yoshio
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僖夫
よしお · Yoshio
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儀夫
よしお · Yoshio
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儀尾
よしお · Yoshio
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儀雄
よしお · Yoshio
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元雄
よしお · Yoshio
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兆男
よしお · Yoshio
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克夫
よしお · Yoshio
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克郎
よしお · Yoshio
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凱夫
よしお · Yoshio
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凱男
よしお · Yoshio
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凱雄
よしお · Yoshio
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剛雄
よしお · Yoshio
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勝生
よしお · Yoshio
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勝郎
よしお · Yoshio
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勝雄
よしお · Yoshio
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叔士
よしお · Yoshio
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叔生
よしお · Yoshio
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叔男
よしお · Yoshio
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可夫
よしお · Yoshio
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可男
よしお · Yoshio
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可雄
よしお · Yoshio
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吉夫
よしお · Yoshio
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吉央
よしお · Yoshio
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吉尾
よしお · Yoshio
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吉生
よしお · Yoshio
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吉男
よしお · Yoshio
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吉郎
よしお · Yoshio
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吉雄
よしお · Yoshio
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和男
よしお · Yoshio
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啓夫
よしお · Yoshio
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啓男
よしお · Yoshio
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啓雄
よしお · Yoshio
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善大
よしお · Yoshio
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善夫
よしお · Yoshio
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善朗
よしお · Yoshio
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善生
よしお · Yoshio
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善男
よしお · Yoshio
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善緒
よしお · Yoshio
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善郎
よしお · Yoshio
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善雄
よしお · Yoshio
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喜夫
よしお · Yoshio
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Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
喜温
よしお · Yoshio
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Showing the first 80 spelling/reading records out of 287 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 287 distinct written spellings.
Spelling comparator
Compare Yoshio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ヨシオ | ヨシオ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| よしを | よしを | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| よし尾 | よしお | 尾 — tail, end | 7 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| よし生 | よしお | 生 — life, genuine | 5 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| よし越 | よしお | 越 — surpass, cross over | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与史雄 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 史 — history, chronicle · 雄 — masculine, male | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与司夫 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 司 — director, official · 夫 — husband, man | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与司男 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 司 — director, official · 男 — male | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与四夫 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 四 — four · 夫 — husband, man | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与四雄 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 四 — four · 雄 — masculine, male | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与志夫 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 志 — intention, plan · 夫 — husband, man | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与志男 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 志 — intention, plan · 男 — male | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与志雄 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 志 — intention, plan · 雄 — masculine, male | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与止男 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 止 — stop, halt · 男 — male | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与男 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 男 — male | 10 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 与詩夫 | よしお | 与 — bestow, participate in · 詩 — poem, poetry · 夫 — husband, man | 20 | 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 Yoshio 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
More names beginning with よし
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 · mixed records · limited reference
Yoshimi
277 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · female · limited referenceYoshie
274 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · male · limited referenceYoshihiro
239 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceYoshinori
232 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceYoshiko
206 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · male · limited referenceYoshiaki
193 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceYoshiyuki
145 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceYoshitaka
132 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · male · limited referenceYoshinobu
129 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · mixed records · limited referenceYoshiki
116 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · male · limited referenceYoshikazu
110 recorded spellings
Explore →Given name · male · limited referenceYoshimasa
92 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Yoshio
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
Toshio
四士夫志生男郎雄
8 shared kanji · 142 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipShizuo
四士夫志生男郎雄
8 shared kanji · 38 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMasao
士夫生男芳郎雄
7 shared kanji · 129 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipMichio
士夫生男芳郎雄
7 shared kanji · 116 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKazuo
四士夫生男郎雄
7 shared kanji · 71 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipFujio
士夫志生男郎雄
7 shared kanji · 45 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTomō
与士夫生男郎雄
7 shared kanji · 43 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKishio
四夫志生男郎雄
7 shared kanji · 29 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipIwao
士夫生男芳郎雄
7 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipTakao
士夫生男郎雄
6 shared kanji · 116 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipNorio
士夫生男郎雄
6 shared kanji · 116 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYukio
夫志生男郎雄
6 shared kanji · 98 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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