group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings42 Source spelling/reading rows42 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 Yukana
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: Yukana. 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 Yukana 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 “Yukana”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
ゆかな
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
ゆKana characterかKana characterなKana character
Kanji spelling
侑叶
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
侑奏
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
優伽奈
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
優可奈
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
優哉
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
優奏
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
優果奈
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
優花菜
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
優華奈
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
優香奈
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
友加奈
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
Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 42. 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 Yukana 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.
ゆかな
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
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.
ゆかな in the imported JMnedict corpus
42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ゆかなYukana | 4242 source rows | female 42source rows · distinct forms: female 42 | 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.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Yukana
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.
9–35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ゆかな | Yukana | 3 | 42 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
花奈4 analyzed forms花菜3 analyzed forms香奈3 analyzed forms友香3 analyzed forms香菜2 analyzed forms夢叶2 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?
7 of 42 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
夢叶
優奏
優哉
2 source-recorded readings
YūyaゆうやYukanaゆかな · this page
友香梨
2 source-recorded readings
Yukanaゆかな · this pageYukariゆかり
幸奏
2 source-recorded readings
Yukanaゆかな · this pageYukinaゆきな
悠哉
2 source-recorded readings
YūyaゆうやYukanaゆかな · this page
結叶
2 source-recorded readings
YuikaゆいかYukanaゆかな · 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 Yukana 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? | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 8 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 奏 | play music, speak to a ruler, complete | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 9 | すすむ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 優 | tenderness, excel, surpass | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | ゆ, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 花 | flower | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | わ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 友 | friend | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | う, ど, ゆ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 叶 | grant, answer | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | かの, かのう | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 香 | incense, smell, perfume | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 9 | こ, こお, ひゃん, よし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 菜 | vegetable, side dish, greens | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 夢 | dream, vision, illusion | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 柚 | citron | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 結 | tie, bind, contract | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ゆい, ゆう | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 侑 | urge to eat | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | あつむ, すすむ, ゆき, ゆ | 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
ゆかな
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
ゆKanaかKanaなKana
Exact written form
侑叶
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
侑奏
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優伽奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優可奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優哉
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
YūyaゆうやYukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優奏
Characters in order
Exact written form
優果奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優花菜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
優華奈
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yukanaゆかな · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 42. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Yukana 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.
奈Nara, what?14 of 42 analyzed forms奏play music, speak to a ruler, complete12 of 42 analyzed forms優tenderness, excel, surpass8 of 42 analyzed forms花flower7 of 42 analyzed forms友friend7 of 42 analyzed forms叶grant, answer6 of 42 analyzed forms香incense, smell, perfume6 of 42 analyzed forms菜vegetable, side dish, greens5 of 42 analyzed forms夢dream, vision, illusion5 of 42 analyzed forms柚citron3 of 42 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Yukana
42 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ゆかな. 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.
ゆかな
ゆかな · Yukana
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
侑叶
ゆかな · Yukana
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侑奏
ゆかな · Yukana
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優伽奈
ゆかな · Yukana
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優可奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
優哉
ゆかな · Yukana
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported given-name corpus.
優奏
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
優果奈
ゆかな · Yukana
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優花菜
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
優華奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
優香奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友加奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友叶
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友花奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友香奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
友香梨
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
友香菜
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
唯奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夕奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夕花奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夢叶
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
夢叶名
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夢奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夢花奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
夢適
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
幸奏
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
悠哉
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
悠奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
柚叶
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
柚奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
柚香菜
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
由奏
ゆかな · Yukana
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由花菜
ゆかな · Yukana
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癒花奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
祐香奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
結佳奈
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
結叶
ゆかな · Yukana
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.
結花菜
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
裕奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
遊奏
ゆかな · Yukana
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
釉珂奈
ゆかな · Yukana
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Spelling comparator
Compare Yukana 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ゆかな | ゆかな | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 侑叶 | ゆかな | 侑 — urge to eat · 叶 — grant, answer | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 侑奏 | ゆかな | 侑 — urge to eat · 奏 — play music, speak to a ruler | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優伽奈 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 伽 — nursing, attending · 奈 — Nara, what? | 32 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優可奈 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 可 — can, passable · 奈 — Nara, what? | 30 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優哉 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 哉 — how, what | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優奏 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 奏 — play music, speak to a ruler | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優果奈 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 果 — fruit, reward · 奈 — Nara, what? | 33 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優花菜 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 花 — flower · 菜 — vegetable, side dish | 35 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優華奈 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 華 — splendor, flower · 奈 — Nara, what? | 35 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 優香奈 | ゆかな | 優 — tenderness, excel · 香 — incense, smell · 奈 — Nara, what? | 34 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 友加奈 | ゆかな | 友 — friend · 加 — add, addition · 奈 — Nara, what? | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 友叶 | ゆかな | 友 — friend · 叶 — grant, answer | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 友奏 | ゆかな | 友 — friend · 奏 — play music, speak to a ruler | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 友花奈 | ゆかな | 友 — friend · 花 — flower · 奈 — Nara, what? | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 友香奈 | ゆかな | 友 — friend · 香 — incense, smell · 奈 — Nara, what? | 21 | 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 Yukana 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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223 recorded spellings
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113 recorded spellings
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6 recorded spellings
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6 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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3 recorded spellings
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3 recorded spellings
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3 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other names sharing kanji with Yukana
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
Yūka
優友叶夢奏柚花香
8 shared kanji · 104 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipAyuka
優友叶夢柚花香
7 shared kanji · 112 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYukina
優友夢奈奏柚菜
7 shared kanji · 109 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKanae
叶夢奈奏花菜香
7 shared kanji · 103 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuka
優友叶夢柚花香
7 shared kanji · 87 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipKana
叶夢奈奏花菜香
7 shared kanji · 84 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYūna
優友夢奈奏柚菜
7 shared kanji · 66 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYumika
優友夢奏柚花香
7 shared kanji · 58 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYukako
優友叶夢柚花香
7 shared kanji · 38 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuina
優友夢奈奏柚菜
7 shared kanji · 38 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYuika
優友叶奏柚花香
7 shared kanji · 32 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Given-name relationshipYurina
優友夢奈柚菜
6 shared kanji · 373 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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