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Japanese given name

Yūmi

ゆうみ

Given-name classification varies across source records.

ゆうみユウミYūmi
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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 spellings98

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows98

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelExtended

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Yūmi

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ゆうみ

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formユウミ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationYūmi

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

Mora segmentationゆ · う · み

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 Yūmi 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 “Yūmi”, 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

ゆうみ

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うKana characterみKana character
Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ゆう実

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うKana character実reality, truth, seed
Mixed kanji and kana spelling

ゆう美

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うKana character美beauty, beautiful
Kanji spelling

佑実

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

佑未

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

佑海

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

佑美

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

侑実

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

侑弥

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

侑望

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

侑海

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 98. 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 Yūmi 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 readings1

ゆうみ

Kanji-based spellings97

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 forms88

recorded spellings

3-kanji forms7

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

ゆうみ in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms98

98 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms1

1 source spelling/reading row

Given-name labelsfemale 95 · unspecified 3

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact readingGiven-name evidenceGiven-name labelsSurname evidence
ゆうみYūmi9898 source rowsfemale 95 · unspecified 3source rows · distinct forms: female 95 · unspecified 311 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 Yūmi

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 data97

6–34 strokes observed span

Median total strokes18

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms97

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
佑美2 analyzed forms有美2 analyzed forms由宇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?

53 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 readings53

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading27

within this active given-name corpus

Largest reading set11

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 Yūmi 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
美beauty, beautiful26026009はる, よし, よしみ, りJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
優tenderness, excel, surpass131300017ゆ, よしJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6
夕evening13130003ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1
海—120120010—Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10
実reality, truth, seed11011008ぐみ, さねJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
未un-, not yet, hitherto11011005—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
結tie, bind, contract8800012ゆい, ゆうJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4
友friend770004う, ど, ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
侑urge to eat660008あつむ, すすむ, ゆき, ゆJinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9
悠permanence, distant, long time6600011ゆJōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
由wherefore, a reason660005—Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
佑help, assist540107すけ, たすく, 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

ゆうみ

Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Yūmiゆうみ · this page
Characters in order
ゆKanaうKanaみKana

Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 98. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Yūmi 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 Yūmi

98 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ゆうみ. 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.

ゆうみ

ゆうみ · Yūmi

Katakana ユウミMorae 3Strokes —

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 98 loaded records for this reading group. The group contains 98 distinct written spellings.

Spelling comparator

Compare Yūmi 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
ゆうみゆうみKana-only spelling—Kana spelling
ゆう実ゆうみ実 — reality, truth8All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
ゆう美ゆうみ美 — beauty, beautiful9All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑実ゆうみ佑 — help, assist · 実 — reality, truth15All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑未ゆうみ佑 — help, assist · 未 — un-, not yet12All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑海ゆうみ佑 — help, assist · 海17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
佑美ゆうみ佑 — help, assist · 美 — beauty, beautiful16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑実ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 実 — reality, truth16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑巳ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 巳 — sign of the snake or serpent, 9-11AM11All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑弥ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 弥 — all the more, increasingly16All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑望ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 望 — ambition, full moon19All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑海ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 海18All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
侑美ゆうみ侑 — urge to eat · 美 — beauty, beautiful17All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優光ゆうみ優 — tenderness, excel · 光 — ray, light23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優后ゆうみ優 — tenderness, excel · 后 — empress, queen23All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
優実ゆうみ優 — tenderness, excel · 実 — reality, truth25All 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 Yūmi 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 ゆう

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 Yūmi

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

Ayumi

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 340 matching source-recorded spellings

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Miyuki

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 169 matching source-recorded spellings

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Mayumi

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 131 matching source-recorded spellings

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Miyu

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 98 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yumi

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 97 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yumiko

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 94 matching source-recorded spellings

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Miyū

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 88 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yumika

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 85 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yukimi

侑優友夕実悠未海結美

10 shared kanji · 81 matching source-recorded spellings

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Sayumi

侑優友夕実未海結美

9 shared kanji · 70 matching source-recorded spellings

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Miu

侑優友夕実未海結美

9 shared kanji · 51 matching source-recorded spellings

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Yumie

侑優友夕実悠未結美

9 shared kanji · 49 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Yūmi

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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