group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings13 Source spelling/reading rows13 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 Araya
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: Araya. 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 Araya 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 “Araya”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
新家
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
新屋
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
新矢
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
新谷
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
粕谷
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
荒家
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
荒屋
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
荒矢
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
荒耶
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
荒谷
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
荒野
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
阿頼耶
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 13. 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 Araya 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.
あらや
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 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.
あらや in the imported JMnedict corpus
1 source spelling/reading row
13 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| あらやAraya | 11 source row | female 1source rows · distinct forms: female 1 | 1313 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 Araya 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 荒耶 | あらや | Araya (in novel series Kara no Kyōkai) |
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.
12 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Araya
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.
14–33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| あらや | Araya | 3 | 13 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
9 of 13 displayed written forms have more than one surname 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 surname corpus
distinct kana readings for one displayed writing
粕谷
15 source-recorded readings
新谷
12 source-recorded readings
新家
11 source-recorded readings
新屋
5 source-recorded readings
荒野
新矢
3 source-recorded readings
荒谷
3 source-recorded readings
荒家
2 source-recorded readings
AraieあらいえArayaあらや · 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 Araya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 荒 | laid waste, rough, rude | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ら | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 新 | new | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | あせ, あたらし, し, に +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 谷 | valley | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | がい, がえ, がや, せ +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 家 | house, home, family | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | あり, え, く, つか +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 屋 | roof, house, shop | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | た | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 矢 | dart, arrow | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 耶 | question mark | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 粕 | scrap, waste | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 野 | plains, field, rustic | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ずけ, つけ, ぬ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 阿 | Africa, flatter, fawn upon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | ほとり, あず, あわ, おか +2 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 頼 | trust, request | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | よち, より | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 顕 | appear, existing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | あき, あきら | 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
新家
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
新屋
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 新屋 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
新矢
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
新谷
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AtarashiyaあたらしやAradaniあらだにArataniあらたにArayaあらや · this pageShingaiしんがいShingayaしんがやShintaniしんたにShin'yaしんや
Exact written form
粕谷
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Arayaあらや · this pageKashitaniかしたにKashiyaかしやKashiwayaかしわやKasugaiかすがいKasugayaかすがやKasutaniかすたにKasuyaかすや
Characters in order
Exact written form
荒家
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
AraieあらいえArayaあらや · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
荒屋
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Arayaあらや · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
荒矢
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Arayaあらや · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
荒耶
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Arayaあらや · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
荒谷
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 13. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Araya 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 Araya
13 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading あらや. 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.
新家
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
新屋
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
新矢
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
新谷
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
粕谷
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
荒家
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
荒屋
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
荒矢
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
荒耶
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
荒谷
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
荒野
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
阿頼耶
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
顕谷
あらや · Araya
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
Spelling comparator
Compare Araya 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 新家 | あらや | 新 — new · 家 — house, home | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 新屋 | あらや | 新 — new · 屋 — roof, house | 22 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 新矢 | あらや | 新 — new · 矢 — dart, arrow | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 新谷 | あらや | 新 — new · 谷 — valley | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 粕谷 | あらや | 粕 — scrap, waste · 谷 — valley | 18 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 荒家 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 家 — house, home | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 荒屋 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 屋 — roof, house | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 荒矢 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 矢 — dart, arrow | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 荒耶 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 耶 — question mark | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 荒谷 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 谷 — valley | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 荒野 | あらや | 荒 — laid waste, rough · 野 — plains, field | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 阿頼耶 | あらや | 阿 — Africa, flatter · 頼 — trust, request · 耶 — question mark | 33 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 顕谷 | あらや | 顕 — appear, existing · 谷 — valley | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Araya 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 surnames beginning with あら
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.
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18 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
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9 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceAra
8 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceAragi
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceAratake
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceArafune
6 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceArahata
6 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceArakawa
6 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Araya
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.
Surname relationship
Kōya
家屋矢荒谷野
6 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipShinya
家屋新矢谷野
6 shared kanji · 12 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMaya
家屋矢耶谷野
6 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMitsuya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 21 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKariya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSoya
家屋矢粕谷
5 shared kanji · 15 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipYano
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 15 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipToya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 15 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKamiya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMoriya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMiya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTaya
家屋矢谷野
5 shared kanji · 14 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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