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Canonical reference record
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Japanese given name

Yuri

ゆり

Given-name classification varies across source records.

ゆりユリYuri
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Reference coverage

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.

Distinct recorded spellings108

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows110

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Yuri

The kana reading is source-recorded. Romanization and mora segmentation are deterministic reading aids generated from that kana; pitch accent is not inferred.

Source readingゆり

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formユリ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationYuri

Macron-style display. Vowel-sequence form: Yuri. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.

Mora segmentationゆ · り

2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.

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Meaning by written form

What can Yuri 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 “Yuri”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings10

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings2

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

ゆり

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りKana character
Kana-only spelling

ユリ

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
ユKana characterリKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ユ里

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

ゆ里

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

佑梨

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

佑理

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

佑莉

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

佑里

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

侑梨

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

侑璃

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

侑莉

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

侑里

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 110. 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 Yuri 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.

Recorded kana readings2

ゆり · ユリ

Kanji-based spellings108

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters2

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae2

small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora

Kana-only2

recorded spellings

1-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms105

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms1

recorded spelling

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.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name + surname

ゆり in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms108

110 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms10

10 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labelsfemale 105 · unspecified 5

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
ゆりYuri108110 source rowsfemale 105 · unspecified 5source rows · distinct forms: female 103 · unspecified 51010 source rows
ゆりYuri00 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 Yuri 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 formSource readingJMnedict source text
ユリゆりUri

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.

110 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Yuri

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.

Kanji forms with complete stroke data108

7–32 strokes observed span

Median total strokes18

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms108

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
百合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?

52 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.

Written forms checked80

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings52

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading26

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set7

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

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 Yuri 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.

KanjiCharacter glossesFormsFirstFinalInternalSoloStrokesKANJIDIC2 nanoriLoaded class
里ri, village, parent's home22022007さJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
梨pear tree170170011かJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
莉jasmine130130010—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
理logic, arrangement, reason120120011あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
由wherefore, a reason12120005—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
優tenderness, excel, surpass9900017ゆ, よしJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6
利profit, advantage, benefit909007かが, と, とし, のり +2Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
李plum909007もも, いJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
夕evening990003ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
友friend880004う, ど, ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
璃glassy, lapis lazuli7070015あきJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
悠permanence, distant, long time6600011ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8

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

ゆり

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yuriゆり · this page
Characters in order
ゆKanaりKana
Exact written form

ユリ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yuriゆり
Characters in order
ユKanaリKana

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 110. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Yuri 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 Yuri

110 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ゆり. 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.

ゆり

ゆり · Yuri

Katakana ユリMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

ユリ

ユリ · Yuri

Katakana ユリMorae 2Strokes —

This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.

Showing the first 80 spelling/reading records out of 110 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 108 distinct written spellings.

Spelling comparator

Compare Yuri 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.

SpellingOne source readingCharacter-level glossesTotal strokesLoaded character class
ゆりゆりKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
ユリユリKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
ユ里ゆり里 — ri, village7All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
ゆ里ゆり里 — ri, village7All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑梨ゆり佑 — help, assist · 梨 — pear tree18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑理ゆり佑 — help, assist · 理 — logic, arrangement18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑莉ゆり佑 — help, assist · 莉 — jasmine17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑里ゆり佑 — help, assist · 里 — ri, village14All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑梨ゆり侑 — urge to eat · 梨 — pear tree19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑璃ゆり侑 — urge to eat · 璃 — glassy, lapis lazuli23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑莉ゆり侑 — urge to eat · 莉 — jasmine18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑里ゆり侑 — urge to eat · 里 — ri, village15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優凜ゆり優 — tenderness, excel · 凜 — cold, strict32All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優利ゆり優 — tenderness, excel · 利 — profit, advantage24All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優合ゆり優 — tenderness, excel · 合 — fit, suit23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優李ゆり優 — tenderness, excel · 李 — plum24All 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 Yuri 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 ゆり

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.

Shared-kanji relationships

Other names sharing kanji with Yuri

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

Yurina

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 492 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yukari

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 203 matching source-recorded spellings

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Sayuri

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 118 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yurie

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 109 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yūri

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 94 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yuria

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 77 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yuriko

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 77 matching source-recorded spellings

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Ayuri

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 48 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mayuri

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 47 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yurino

優利友夕李梨理由莉里

10 shared kanji · 24 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yurika

優利友夕梨理由莉里

9 shared kanji · 135 matching source-recorded spellings

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Given-name relationship

Miyuri

優利友夕梨理由莉里

9 shared kanji · 31 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Yuri

Use literal reading, character and corpus relationships to continue without treating nearby records as automatically related.

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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