Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese given name

Yuriko

ゆりこ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

ゆりこユリコYuriko

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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 spellings90

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows91

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Yuriko

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ゆりこ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formユリコ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationYuriko

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

Mora segmentationゆ · り · こ

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 Yuriko 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 “Yuriko”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.

Kanji spellings11

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings1

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kana-only spelling

ゆりこ

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こKana character

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ゆり子

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

ゆKana characterりKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ユリ子

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

ユKana characterリKana character子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ゆ里子

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

ゆKana character里ri, village, parent's home子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑利子

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

佑help, assist利profit, advantage, benefit子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑吏子

Characters and loaded glosses

佑help, assist吏officer, an official子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑梨子

Characters and loaded glosses

佑help, assist梨pear tree子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑理子

Characters and loaded glosses

佑help, assist理logic, arrangement, reason子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑莉子

Characters and loaded glosses

佑help, assist莉jasmine子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

佑里子

Characters and loaded glosses

佑help, assist里ri, village, parent's home子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

侑梨子

Characters and loaded glosses

侑urge to eat梨pear tree子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Kanji spelling

侑理子

Characters and loaded glosses

侑urge to eat理logic, arrangement, reason子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM

Showing meaning context for the first 12 distinct written forms out of 91. 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 Yuriko 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

ゆりこ · ユリこ

Kanji-based spellings90

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters3

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae3

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

Kana-only1

recorded spelling

1-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

2-kanji forms2

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms86

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.

Primary reading recorded asGiven name + surname

ゆりこ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms90

91 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms1

1 source spelling/reading row

Given-name labelsfemale 90 · unspecified 1

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
ゆりこYuriko	9091 source rows	female 90 · unspecified 1source rows · distinct forms: female 89 · unspecified 1	11 source row
ゆりこYuriko	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.

Spelling anatomy

Corpus structure behind Yuriko

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 data90

3–37 strokes observed span

Median total strokes20

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms90

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms0

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
ゆりこ	Yuriko	3	91

Recurring first-position kanji

由wherefore, a reason13 forms 友friend10 forms 佑help, assist6 forms 優tenderness, excel6 forms 夕evening6 forms 悠permanence, distant6 forms

Recurring final-position kanji

子child, sign of the rat86 forms 香incense, smell2 forms 鼓drum, beat1 form 瑚ancestral offering receptacle, coral1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

里子19 analyzed forms 理子14 analyzed forms 利子11 analyzed forms 梨子10 analyzed forms 吏子7 analyzed forms 莉子6 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 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 readings7

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading72

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set6

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

百合子

6 source-recorded readings

Sayuriさゆり Miyoみよ YuriゆりYurikoゆりこ · this pageYurineゆりね Rikoりこ

侑里子

2 source-recorded readings

UrikoうりこYurikoゆりこ · this page

優理香

2 source-recorded readings

YurikaゆりかYurikoゆりこ · this page

友梨香

2 source-recorded readings

YurikaゆりかYurikoゆりこ · this page

悠里子

2 source-recorded readings

YūrikoゆうりこYurikoゆりこ · this page

有利子

2 source-recorded readings

ArikoありこYurikoゆりこ · this page

有理子

2 source-recorded readings

ArikoありこYurikoゆりこ · 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 Yuriko 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	Strokes	KANJIDIC2 nanori	Loaded class
子	child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM	86	0	86	0	3	い, き, ぎ, く +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
里	ri, village, parent's home	20	1	0	19	7	さ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
理	logic, arrangement, reason	15	0	0	15	11	あや, おさむ, さと, さとる +12	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
由	wherefore, a reason	13	13	0	0	5	—	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
利	profit, advantage, benefit	12	0	0	12	7	かが, と, とし, のり +2	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
梨	pear tree	11	0	0	11	11	か	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
友	friend	10	10	0	0	4	う, ど, ゆ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
吏	officer, an official	7	0	0	7	6	さと, し	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
佑	help, assist	6	6	0	0	7	すけ, たすく, ゆ	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
莉	jasmine	6	0	0	6	10	—	Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
優	tenderness, excel, surpass	6	6	0	0	17	ゆ, よし	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6
夕	evening	6	6	0	0	3	ゆ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1

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

ゆりこ

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

ゆKanaりKanaこKana

Exact written form

ゆり子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

ゆKanaりKana子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

ユリ子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ

Characters in order

ユKanaリKana子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

ゆ里子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

ゆKana里ri, village子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑利子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist利profit, advantage子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑吏子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist吏officer, an official子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑梨子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist梨pear tree子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑理子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist理logic, arrangement子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑莉子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist莉jasmine子child, sign of the rat

Exact written form

佑里子

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Yurikoゆりこ · this page

Characters in order

佑help, assist里ri, village子child, sign of the rat

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 91. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Yuriko 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.

子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM86 of 91 analyzed forms 里ri, village, parent's home20 of 91 analyzed forms 理logic, arrangement, reason15 of 91 analyzed forms 由wherefore, a reason13 of 91 analyzed forms 利profit, advantage, benefit12 of 91 analyzed forms 梨pear tree11 of 91 analyzed forms 友friend10 of 91 analyzed forms 吏officer, an official7 of 91 analyzed forms 佑help, assist6 of 91 analyzed forms 莉jasmine6 of 91 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Yuriko

91 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ゆりこ. 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.

ゆりこ

ゆりこ · Yuriko

Katakana ユリコMorae 3Strokes —

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

Character-set checkKana spelling

Yuriko

Extended source depth

How to read Yuriko

What can Yuriko mean?

ゆりこ

ゆり子

ユリ子

ゆ里子

佑利子

佑吏子

佑梨子

佑理子

佑莉子

佑里子

侑梨子

侑理子

How to read these meanings

How Yuriko is represented

How this reading is classified in the source corpus

Corpus structure behind Yuriko

Can the same writing be read another way?

How recurring characters function across Yuriko spellings

Move from a spelling to its readings, characters and literal sequence context

ゆりこ

ゆり子

ユリ子

ゆ里子

佑利子

佑吏子

佑梨子

佑理子

佑莉子

佑里子

Kanji recurring across Yuriko spellings

Explore written forms of Yuriko

ゆりこ

ゆり子

ユリ子

ゆ里子

佑利子

佑吏子

佑梨子

佑理子

佑莉子

佑里子

侑梨子

侑理子

侑莉子

侑里子

優利子

優梨子

優理子

優理香

優莉子

優里子

友倫子

友利子

友合子

友吏子

友李子

友梨子

友梨香

友理子

友莉子

友里子

唯理子

夕利子

夕李子

夕梨子

夕理子

夕璃子

夕里子

夢里子

弓理子

弓里子

悠倫子

悠利子

悠梨子

悠理子

悠莉子