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Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese surname

Arayashiki

新屋敷

Surname-classified records in JMnedict.

あらやしきアラヤシキArayashiki

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Reference coverage

Standard source depth

This reading group has enough source-recorded spelling and record depth for the main reference library. The counts describe corpus coverage, not real-world popularity.

Distinct recorded spellings3

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows3

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelStandard

based only on the imported source footprint

Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Arayashiki

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あらやしき

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formアラヤシキ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationArayashiki

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

Mora segmentationあ · ら · や · し · き

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

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Meaning by written form

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

Kanji spellings3

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings0

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kanji spelling

新屋敷

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

新new屋roof, house, shop敷spread, pave, sit

Kanji spelling

荒屋敷

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

荒laid waste, rough, rude屋roof, house, shop敷spread, pave, sit

Kanji spelling

荒屋鋪

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

荒laid waste, rough, rude屋roof, house, shop鋪shop, store

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 Arayashiki 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

あらやしき

Kanji-based spellings3

among the forms analyzed on this page

Kana characters5

in the primary dictionary reading

Morae5

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

3-kanji forms3

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 asSurname

あらやしき in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms3

3 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labels—

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
あらやしきArayashiki	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	33 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 Arayashiki

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 data3

33–37 strokes observed span

Median total strokes33

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms2

all component kanji loaded as jōyō/jinmeiyō classes

Other/unclassified kanji forms1

contains at least one character outside that loaded classification

Source-reading distribution

Reading	Romanization	Morae	Forms
あらやしき	Arayashiki	5	3

Recurring first-position kanji

荒laid waste, rough2 forms 新new1 form

Recurring final-position kanji

敷spread, pave2 forms 鋪shop, store1 form

Recurring adjacent kanji sequences

屋敷2 analyzed forms 荒屋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?

1 of 3 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.

Written forms checked3

distinct spellings displayed on this page

Multiple recorded readings1

exact written forms with 2+ source readings

Single recorded reading2

within this active surname corpus

Largest reading set3

distinct kana readings for one displayed writing

新屋敷

3 source-recorded readings

Arayashikiあらやしき · this pageShin'yashikiしんやしきNīyashikiにいやしき

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 Arayashiki 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
屋	roof, house, shop	3	0	0	3	0	9	た	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3
敷	spread, pave, sit	2	0	2	0	0	15	しき, にゅう	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
荒	laid waste, rough, rude	2	2	0	0	0	9	ら	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
新	new	1	1	0	0	0	13	あせ, あたらし, し, に +3	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2
鋪	shop, store	1	0	1	0	0	15	しき	Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field

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

新屋敷

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Arayashikiあらやしき · this pageShin'yashikiしんやしきNīyashikiにいやしき

Characters in order

新new屋roof, house敷spread, pave

Exact written form

荒屋敷

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Arayashikiあらやしき · this page

Characters in order

荒laid waste, rough屋roof, house敷spread, pave

Exact written form

荒屋鋪

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Arayashikiあらやしき · this page

Characters in order

荒laid waste, rough屋roof, house鋪shop, store

Corpus pattern

Kanji recurring across Arayashiki 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.

屋roof, house, shop3 of 3 analyzed forms 敷spread, pave, sit2 of 3 analyzed forms 荒laid waste, rough, rude2 of 3 analyzed forms

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Arayashiki

3 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading あらやしき. 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.

新屋敷

あらやしき · Arayashiki

Katakana アラヤシキMorae 5Strokes 37

新new 屋roof, house, shop, dealer 敷spread, pave, sit, promulgate

Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2

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荒屋敷

あらやしき · Arayashiki

Katakana アラヤシキMorae 5Strokes 33

荒laid waste, rough, rude, wild 屋roof, house, shop, dealer 敷spread, pave, sit, promulgate

Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2

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荒屋鋪

あらやしき · Arayashiki

Katakana アラヤシキMorae 5Strokes 33

荒laid waste, rough, rude, wild 屋roof, house, shop, dealer 鋪shop, store

Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification

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Spelling comparator

Compare Arayashiki 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
新屋敷	あらやしき	新 — new · 屋 — roof, house · 敷 — spread, pave	37	All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
荒屋敷	あらやしき	荒 — laid waste, rough · 屋 — roof, house · 敷 — spread, pave	33	All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified
荒屋鋪	あらやしき	荒 — laid waste, rough · 屋 — roof, house · 鋪 — shop, store	33	Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class

What does Arayashiki 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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Arai

12 recorded spellings

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Aramaki

9 recorded spellings

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Arano

9 recorded spellings

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Arata

9 recorded spellings

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Ara

8 recorded spellings

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Aragi

7 recorded spellings

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Arafune

6 recorded spellings

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Arahata

6 recorded spellings

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Arakawa

6 recorded spellings

Shared-kanji relationships

Other surnames sharing kanji with Arayashiki

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

Yashiki

3 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings

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Araya

3 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings

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Arao

3 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings

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Shikiya

3 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings

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Ōyashiki

3 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings

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Takayashiki

3 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings

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Araki

2 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings

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Aramaki

2 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings

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Arano

2 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings

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Kōya

2 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings

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Shinya

2 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings

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Aratake

2 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Arayashiki

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屋 — roof, house

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敷 — spread, pave

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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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