group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings11 Source spelling/reading rows11 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 Koma
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: Koma. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
2 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Koma 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 “Koma”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
小間
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
巨摩
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
木間
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
来間
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
狛
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
胡摩
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
胡間
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
胡麻
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
駒
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
高麗
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
鼓間
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
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 Koma 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.
こま
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 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.
こま in the imported JMnedict corpus
0 source spelling/reading rows
14 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| ごまGoma | 1010 source rows | female 10source rows · distinct forms: female 10 | 00 source rows |
| こまKoma | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 1314 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 Koma
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.
8–29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| こま | Koma | 2 | 11 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
7 of 11 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
高麗
10 source-recorded readings
来間
木間
小間
3 source-recorded readings
OhazamaおはざまOmaおまKomaこま · this page
胡摩
3 source-recorded readings
駒
3 source-recorded readings
胡麻
2 source-recorded readings
Komaこま · this pageKomasakiこまさき
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 Koma 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 間 | interval, space | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ちか, は, はざ, はし | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 胡 | barbarian, foreign | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | えびす, くる | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 摩 | chafe, rub, polish | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 小 | little, small | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | いさら, こう, さざ, しゃお +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 巨 | gigantic, big, large | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | おお, か, こ, なお | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 木 | tree, wood | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ぐ, も, もと | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 来 | come, due, next | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | くり, くる, ごろ, さ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 狛 | archaic part of Korea, lion-dog shrine guards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 麻 | hemp, flax, numb | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | あ, あざ, お | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 駒 | pony, horse, colt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 高 | tall, high, expensive | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | か, こ, じょい, た +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 麗 | lovely, beautiful, graceful | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | ま, よし, り | 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
小間
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
OhazamaおはざまOmaおまKomaこま · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 小間 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
巨摩
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Komaこま · this page
Characters in order
Other public forms containing the same contiguous sequence
The exact sequence 巨摩 appears contiguously inside these other source-recorded forms.
Exact written form
木間
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
来間
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
狛
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Komaこま · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
胡摩
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
胡間
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Komaこま · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
胡麻
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Komaこま · this pageKomasakiこまさき
Characters in order
Exact written form
駒
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
高麗
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 11. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Koma 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 Koma
11 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading こま. 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.
小間
こま · Koma
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
巨摩
こま · Koma
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
木間
こま · Koma
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.
来間
こま · Koma
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.
狛
こま · Koma
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
胡摩
こま · Koma
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.
胡間
こま · Koma
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
胡麻
こま · Koma
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.
駒
こま · Koma
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.
高麗
こま · Koma
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.
鼓間
こま · Koma
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Koma 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 小間 | こま | 小 — little, small · 間 — interval, space | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 巨摩 | こま | 巨 — gigantic, big · 摩 — chafe, rub | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 木間 | こま | 木 — tree, wood · 間 — interval, space | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 来間 | こま | 来 — come, due · 間 — interval, space | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 狛 | こま | 狛 — archaic part of Korea, lion-dog shrine guards | 8 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 胡摩 | こま | 胡 — barbarian, foreign · 摩 — chafe, rub | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 胡間 | こま | 胡 — barbarian, foreign · 間 — interval, space | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 胡麻 | こま | 胡 — barbarian, foreign · 麻 — hemp, flax | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 駒 | こま | 駒 — pony, horse | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 高麗 | こま | 高 — tall, high · 麗 — lovely, beautiful | 29 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 鼓間 | こま | 鼓 — drum, beat · 間 — interval, space | 25 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Koma 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 こま
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.
Surname · limited reference
Komaki
16 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomata
9 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomazaki
8 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomae
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomai
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomasaki
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomatsu
7 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomasu
6 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomasa
5 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomada
4 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomaru
4 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceKomaya
4 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Koma
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
Komaki
小摩木胡間駒麻
7 shared kanji · 12 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMaki
摩木来間麻
5 shared kanji · 22 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKomazaki
小摩胡駒
4 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKomasaki
小胡駒麻
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKishima
木来間麻
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKomai
小狛間駒
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTaima
摩間麻
3 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTakuma
摩間麻
3 shared kanji · 16 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasaki
木来間
3 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTōma
摩間麻
3 shared kanji · 13 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipShikama
摩間麻
3 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKojima
小巨木
3 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
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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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