group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings8 Source spelling/reading rows8 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 Kashio
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: Kashio. 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 Kashio 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 “Kashio”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kana-only spelling
カシオ
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
カKana characterシKana characterオKana character
Kanji spelling
加塩
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
柏尾
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
梶尾
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
樫尾
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
橿尾
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
菓子尾
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
鹿塩
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.
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 Kashio 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.
かしお · カシオ
among the forms analyzed on this page
in the primary dictionary reading
small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana combine with the preceding mora
recorded spelling
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.
かしお in the imported JMnedict corpus
15 source spelling/reading rows
16 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| かしおKashio | 1515 source rows | female 2 · unspecified 13source rows · distinct forms: female 2 · unspecified 13 | 1416 source rows |
| かしおKashio | 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.
JMnedict source text
Source-supplied text attached to Kashio 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 |
|---|---|---|
| カシオ | かしお | Cascio |
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.
7 source-text items were omitted because they are equivalent to the generated romanization and would add no distinct information.
Spelling anatomy
Corpus structure behind Kashio
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.
16–24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| かしお | Kashio | 3 | 8 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
3 of 8 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
柏尾
3 source-recorded readings
Kashioかしお · this pageKashiwaoかしわおHakuoはくお
梶尾
2 source-recorded readings
KajioかじおKashioかしお · this page
樫尾
2 source-recorded readings
KajioかじおKashioかしお · 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 Kashio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 尾 | tail, end, counter for fish | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 塩 | salt | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 加 | add, addition, increase | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 柏 | oak, cypress | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | かい, かし | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 梶 | sculling oar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 樫 | evergreen oak, (kokuji) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 橿 | oak | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 菓 | candy, cakes, fruit | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 子 | child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | い, き, ぎ, く +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 鹿 | deer | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | しし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
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
カシオ
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
カKanaシKanaオKana
Exact written form
加塩
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
柏尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this pageKashiwaoかしわおHakuoはくお
Characters in order
Exact written form
梶尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KajioかじおKashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
樫尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KajioかじおKashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
橿尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
菓子尾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
鹿塩
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Kashioかしお · this page
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Kashio 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 Kashio
8 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading かしお. 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.
カシオ
カシオ · Kashio
This written form uses kana rather than kanji, so there are no character-level kanji glosses to combine.
Character-set checkKana spelling
加塩
かしお · Kashio
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
柏尾
かしお · Kashio
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
梶尾
かしお · Kashio
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.
樫尾
かしお · Kashio
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.
橿尾
かしお · Kashio
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
菓子尾
かしお · Kashio
菓candy, cakes, fruit子child, sign of the rat, 11PM-1AM, first sign of Chinese zodiac尾tail, end, counter for fish, lower slope of mountain
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
鹿塩
かしお · Kashio
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Kashio 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| カシオ | カシオ | Kana-only spelling | — | Kana spelling |
| 加塩 | かしお | 加 — add, addition · 塩 — salt | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 柏尾 | かしお | 柏 — oak, cypress · 尾 — tail, end | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 梶尾 | かしお | 梶 — sculling oar · 尾 — tail, end | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 樫尾 | かしお | 樫 — evergreen oak, (kokuji) · 尾 — tail, end | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 橿尾 | かしお | 橿 — oak · 尾 — tail, end | 24 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 菓子尾 | かしお | 菓 — candy, cakes · 子 — child, sign of the rat · 尾 — tail, end | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 鹿塩 | かしお | 鹿 — deer · 塩 — salt | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Kashio 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
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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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14 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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Explore →Surname · limited referenceKashiro
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Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Kashio
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
Kashimura
加柏梶樫橿鹿
6 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashino
子柏梶樫菓鹿
6 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashida
加子梶樫菓鹿
6 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKa
加尾柏梶樫
5 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashi
加子樫橿菓
5 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashimoto
子柏樫橿菓
5 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashī
加子柏樫菓
5 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashiba
加柏樫鹿
4 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashiyama
加柏樫橿
4 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashihara
柏梶樫橿
4 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashiki
子柏樫鹿
4 shared kanji · 3 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKashitani
子柏樫菓
4 shared kanji · 3 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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