Canonical reference record

JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context

Japanese surname

Horigo

堀後

Surname-classified records in JMnedict.

ほりごホリゴHorigo

Reference coverage

Source reference only

This entry is preserved as a direct dictionary reference because the currently imported source footprint is small. No extra meaning, popularity or usage claims are inferred.

Distinct recorded spellings1

group-level written forms

Source spelling/reading rows1

records contributing to this reading group

Coverage levelSource-only

based only on the imported source footprint

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Pronunciation & romanization

How to read Horigo

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ほりご

Normalized to hiragana for comparison.

Katakana formホリゴ

The same reading converted to katakana.

RomanizationHorigo

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

Mora segmentationほ · り · ご

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

Kanji spellings1

character meanings available

Kana-only spellings0

no kanji meaning attached

InterpretationBy spelling

based on the exact written form

Kanji spelling

堀後

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

堀ditch, moat, canal後behind, back, later

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 Horigo 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

ほりご

Kanji-based spellings1

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

2-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 asNo additional class found

ほりご in the imported JMnedict corpus

Given-name written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Surname written forms0

0 source spelling/reading rows

Given-name labels—

row counts carrying each JMnedict source label

Exact reading	Given-name evidence	Given-name labels	Surname evidence
ほりこHoriko	00 source rows	—source rows · distinct forms: —	44 source rows
ほりごHorigo	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 Horigo

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 data1

20–20 strokes observed span

Median total strokes20

among forms with complete KANJIDIC2 stroke data

All-kanji name-classified forms1

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
ほりご	Horigo	3	1

Recurring first-position kanji

堀ditch, moat1 form

Recurring final-position kanji

後behind, back1 form

Kanji role reference

How recurring characters function across Horigo 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
堀	ditch, moat, canal	1	1	0	0	0	11	ほっ	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8
後	behind, back, later	1	0	1	0	0	9	こし, し, しい, しり	Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2

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

堀後

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Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class

Horigoほりご · this page

Characters in order

堀ditch, moat後behind, back

Same reading, different writing

Explore written forms of Horigo

1 source-recorded form use the primary source reading ほりご. 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.

堀後

ほりご · Horigo

Katakana ホリゴMorae 3Strokes 20

堀ditch, moat, canal 後behind, back, later

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

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Shared-kanji relationships

堀

1 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings

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Where to go next from Horigo

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Exact reading

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堀 — ditch, moat

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後 — behind, back

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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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