group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings36 Source spelling/reading rows36 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 Masaki
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: Masaki. 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 Masaki 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 “Masaki”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
万佐木
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
仁木
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
勝木
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
将木
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
征木
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
政喜
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
政木
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
昌木
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
松前
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
柾
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
柾木
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
柾輝
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 36. 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 Masaki 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.
まさき
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
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.
まさき in the imported JMnedict corpus
165 source spelling/reading rows
46 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| まさきMasaki | 163165 source rows | male 11 · female 57 · unspecified 97source rows · distinct forms: male 11 · female 57 · unspecified 97 | 4046 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 Masaki
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| まさき | Masaki | 3 | 36 |
Recurring adjacent kanji sequences
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?
14 of 36 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
仁木
馬
9 source-recorded readings
真崎
8 source-recorded readings
真木
間
馬崎
6 source-recorded readings
勝木
5 source-recorded readings
松前
4 source-recorded readings
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 Masaki 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 木 | tree, wood | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ぐ, も, もと | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 真 | true, reality, Buddhist sect | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | さな, さね, ただ, ただし +11 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 正 | correct, justice, righteous | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | おお, くに, ま, まさし +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 崎 | promontory, cape, spit | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 佐 | assistant, help | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | すけ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 喜 | rejoice, take pleasure in | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | あき, きゅ, のぶ, ゆき +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 柾 | straight grain, spindle tree, (kokuji) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 政 | politics, government | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | ただ, まさ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 置 | placement, put, set | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | おき, おけ, き | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 眞 | truth, reality, Buddhist sect | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | さな, ち, まこ, まさ +1 | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 先 | before, ahead, previous | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ぽん | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 間 | interval, space | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | ちか, は, はざ, はし | 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
万佐木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
仁木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
勝木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
将木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
ShōkiしょうきMasakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
征木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
政喜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
政木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
昌木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
松前
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
柾
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Masakiまさき · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 36. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Masaki 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.
木tree, wood11 of 36 analyzed forms真true, reality, Buddhist sect9 of 36 analyzed forms正correct, justice, righteous8 of 36 analyzed forms崎promontory, cape, spit4 of 36 analyzed forms佐assistant, help3 of 36 analyzed forms喜rejoice, take pleasure in3 of 36 analyzed forms柾straight grain, spindle tree, (kokuji)3 of 36 analyzed forms政politics, government2 of 36 analyzed forms置placement, put, set2 of 36 analyzed forms眞truth, reality, Buddhist sect2 of 36 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Masaki
36 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading まさき. 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.
万佐木
まさき · Masaki
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仁木
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
勝木
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
将木
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
征木
まさき · Masaki
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政喜
まさき · Masaki
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政木
まさき · Masaki
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昌木
まさき · Masaki
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松前
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
柾
まさき · Masaki
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柾木
まさき · Masaki
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柾輝
まさき · Masaki
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正伯
まさき · Masaki
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正來
まさき · Masaki
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正喜
まさき · Masaki
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正城
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
正木
まさき · Masaki
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正来
まさき · Masaki
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正置
まさき · Masaki
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正鬼
まさき · Masaki
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眞先
まさき · Masaki
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眞崎
まさき · Masaki
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真佐喜
まさき · Masaki
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真佐木
まさき · Masaki
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真先
まさき · Masaki
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真咲
まさき · Masaki
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真崎
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
真幸
まさき · Masaki
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真木
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
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真樹
まさき · Masaki
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真置
まさき · Masaki
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薜
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
間
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
間崎
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded reading
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馬
まさき · Masaki
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馬崎
まさき · Masaki
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
Spelling comparator
Compare Masaki 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 万佐木 | まさき | 万 — ten thousand, 10,000 · 佐 — assistant, help · 木 — tree, wood | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 仁木 | まさき | 仁 — humanity, virtue · 木 — tree, wood | 8 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 勝木 | まさき | 勝 — victory, win · 木 — tree, wood | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 将木 | まさき | 将 — leader, commander · 木 — tree, wood | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 征木 | まさき | 征 — subjugate, attack the rebellious · 木 — tree, wood | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 政喜 | まさき | 政 — politics, government · 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 政木 | まさき | 政 — politics, government · 木 — tree, wood | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 昌木 | まさき | 昌 — prosperous, bright · 木 — tree, wood | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 松前 | まさき | 松 — pine tree · 前 — in front, before | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 柾 | まさき | 柾 — straight grain, spindle tree | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 柾木 | まさき | 柾 — straight grain, spindle tree · 木 — tree, wood | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 柾輝 | まさき | 柾 — straight grain, spindle tree · 輝 — radiance, shine | 24 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 正伯 | まさき | 正 — correct, justice · 伯 — chief, count | 12 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 正來 | まさき | 正 — correct, justice · 來 — come, due | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 正喜 | まさき | 正 — correct, justice · 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 正城 | まさき | 正 — correct, justice · 城 — castle | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
The comparison table shows the first 16 distinct written forms; the detailed cards above show up to 80 spelling/reading records.
What does Masaki 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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7 recorded spellings
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6 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Masaki
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
Masada
政柾正眞真
5 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasa
佐政正眞真
5 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakima
佐喜崎眞真
5 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMaki
喜木眞真
4 shared kanji · 30 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKisaki
佐喜崎木
4 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSanagi
佐木眞真
4 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSaki
佐喜崎木
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasai
政柾正真
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasago
政正眞真
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasami
佐政正真
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasano
政正眞真
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMaeki
喜木眞真
4 shared kanji · 5 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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