group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings22 Source spelling/reading rows22 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 Sakae
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: Sakae. 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 Sakae 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 “Sakae”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
佐替
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
坂恵
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
坂栄
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
坂榮
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
坂江
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
堺栄
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
境
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
寒川江
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
寒河江
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
栄
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
栄江
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
榊枝
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 22. 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 Sakae 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.
さかえ
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.
さかえ in the imported JMnedict corpus
45 source spelling/reading rows
25 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| さかえSakae | 4445 source rows | male 2 · female 31 · unspecified 12source rows · distinct forms: male 2 · female 30 · unspecified 12 | 2325 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 Sakae
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.
9–26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| さかえ | Sakae | 3 | 22 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
9 of 22 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
寒河江
16 source-recorded readings
KangaeかんがえKankaeかんかえKankakōかんかこうKangawaeかんがわえKankawaeかんかわえKankōeかんこうえ
盛
12 source-recorded readings
榊枝
6 source-recorded readings
栄
5 source-recorded readings
境
榮
3 source-recorded readings
堺栄
2 source-recorded readings
Sakaeさかえ · this pageSakaeiさかえい
寒川江
2 source-recorded readings
SagaeさがえSakaeさかえ · 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 Sakae 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 栄 | flourish, prosperity, honor | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | さかえ, しげ, てる, なが +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 江 | creek, inlet, bay | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | くん, とうみ, み, りえ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 酒 | sake, alcohol | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | き, さ, し | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 坂 | slope, incline, hill | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | か, ざ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 榮 | flourish, prosperity, honour | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 阪 | heights, slope | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 寒 | cold | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | さ, さん | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 衛 | defense, protection | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | もり, い, まもる | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 佐 | assistant, help | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | すけ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 替 | exchange, spare, substitute | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | かえ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 恵 | favor, blessing, grace | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | あや, け, さと, さとし +4 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 堺 | world | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
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
佐替
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂恵
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂栄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂榮
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂江
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
堺栄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakaeさかえ · this pageSakaeiさかえい
Characters in order
Exact written form
境
Characters in order
Exact written form
寒川江
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
SagaeさがえSakaeさかえ · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
寒河江
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
栄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 22. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Sakae 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.
栄flourish, prosperity, honor6 of 22 analyzed forms江creek, inlet, bay6 of 22 analyzed forms酒sake, alcohol5 of 22 analyzed forms坂slope, incline, hill4 of 22 analyzed forms榮flourish, prosperity, honour3 of 22 analyzed forms阪heights, slope3 of 22 analyzed forms寒cold2 of 22 analyzed forms衛defense, protection2 of 22 analyzed forms
Same reading, different writing
Explore written forms of Sakae
22 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading さかえ. 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.
佐替
さかえ · Sakae
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坂恵
さかえ · Sakae
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坂栄
さかえ · Sakae
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坂榮
さかえ · Sakae
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坂江
さかえ · Sakae
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堺栄
さかえ · Sakae
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境
さかえ · Sakae
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
寒川江
さかえ · Sakae
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
寒河江
さかえ · Sakae
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.
栄
さかえ · Sakae
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
栄江
さかえ · Sakae
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Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
榊枝
さかえ · Sakae
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Same writing, other recorded readings
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
榮
さかえ · Sakae
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.
盛
さかえ · Sakae
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.
酒得
さかえ · Sakae
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酒栄
さかえ · Sakae
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酒榮
さかえ · Sakae
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酒江
さかえ · Sakae
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酒衛
さかえ · Sakae
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阪栄
さかえ · Sakae
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阪江
さかえ · Sakae
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阪衛
さかえ · Sakae
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Spelling comparator
Compare Sakae 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 佐替 | さかえ | 佐 — assistant, help · 替 — exchange, spare | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂恵 | さかえ | 坂 — slope, incline · 恵 — favor, blessing | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂栄 | さかえ | 坂 — slope, incline · 栄 — flourish, prosperity | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂榮 | さかえ | 坂 — slope, incline · 榮 — flourish, prosperity | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂江 | さかえ | 坂 — slope, incline · 江 — creek, inlet | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 堺栄 | さかえ | 堺 — world · 栄 — flourish, prosperity | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 境 | さかえ | 境 — boundary, border | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 寒川江 | さかえ | 寒 — cold · 川 — stream, river · 江 — creek, inlet | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 寒河江 | さかえ | 寒 — cold · 河 — river · 江 — creek, inlet | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 栄 | さかえ | 栄 — flourish, prosperity | 9 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 栄江 | さかえ | 栄 — flourish, prosperity · 江 — creek, inlet | 15 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 榊枝 | さかえ | 榊 — sacred Shinto tree, (kokuji) · 枝 — bough, branch | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 榮 | さかえ | 榮 — flourish, prosperity | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 盛 | さかえ | 盛 — boom, prosper | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒得 | さかえ | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 得 — gain, get | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒栄 | さかえ | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 栄 — flourish, prosperity | 19 | 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 Sakae 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 さか
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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31 recorded spellings
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16 recorded spellings
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15 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSagawa
12 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakaya
12 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSagami
11 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakamoto
11 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakane
11 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakawa
11 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakamaki
10 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Sakae
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
Sakai
佐坂栄榮酒阪
6 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakaki
佐坂栄酒阪
5 shared kanji · 12 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakata
佐坂酒阪
4 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipŌe
栄榮江衛
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipNagae
栄榮江衛
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakane
佐坂酒阪
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakari
佐坂栄榮
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakaeda
坂栄榮酒
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipEgawa
栄榮江衛
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipUe
栄榮江衛
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMotoe
栄榮江衛
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakano
佐坂酒阪
4 shared kanji · 6 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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