group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings16 Source spelling/reading rows16 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 Sakaki
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: Sakaki. 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 Sakaki 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 “Sakaki”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
佐柿
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
坂城
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
坂寄
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
彭城
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
榊
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
賢木
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
酒城
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
酒寄
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 16. 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 Sakaki 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 spelling
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.
さかき in the imported JMnedict corpus
3 source spelling/reading rows
21 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| さかきSakaki | 33 source rows | female 1 · unspecified 2source rows · distinct forms: female 1 · unspecified 2 | 1921 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 Sakaki
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.
11–26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| さかき | Sakaki | 3 | 16 |
Reading ambiguity
Can the same writing be read another way?
8 of 16 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
酒寄
8 source-recorded readings
坂寄
4 source-recorded readings
栄木
3 source-recorded readings
阪記
3 source-recorded readings
Sakakiさかき · this pageSakashirushiさかしるしSakashirusuさかしるす
坂木
2 source-recorded readings
SakagiさかぎSakakiさかき · this page
彭城
2 source-recorded readings
Sakakiさかき · this pageHōjōほうじょう
榊
2 source-recorded readings
KashiwaかしわSakakiさかき · this page
阪木
2 source-recorded readings
SakagiさかぎSakakiさかき · 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 Sakaki 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 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ぐ, も, もと | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 坂 | slope, incline, hill | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | か, ざ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 酒 | sake, alcohol | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | き, さ, し | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 城 | castle | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | いく, がき, き, くに +7 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 寄 | draw near, stop in, bring near | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | よせ, より, よろ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 榊 | sacred Shinto tree, (kokuji) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 阪 | heights, slope | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 佐 | assistant, help | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | すけ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 柿 | persimmon | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 喜 | rejoice, take pleasure in | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | あき, きゅ, のぶ, ゆき +1 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 5 |
| 彭 | swelling, sound of drum | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — | Unclassified in the loaded KANJIDIC grade field |
| 栄 | flourish, prosperity, honor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | さかえ, しげ, てる, なが +2 | 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
佐柿
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂喜
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂城
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂寄
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
坂木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
SakagiさかぎSakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
彭城
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this pageHōjōほうじょう
Characters in order
Exact written form
栄木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
榊
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
KashiwaかしわSakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
榊木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
賢木
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Sakakiさかき · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 16. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Sakaki 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 Sakaki
16 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading さかき. 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.
佐柿
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
坂喜
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
坂城
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
坂寄
さかき · Sakaki
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.
坂木
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
彭城
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkContains at least one kanji outside the loaded jōyō/jinmeiyō classification
Same writing, other recorded reading
Exact written-form relationship inside the imported surname corpus.
栄木
さかき · Sakaki
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.
榊
さかき · Sakaki
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.
榊木
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
賢木
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
酒城
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
酒寄
さかき · Sakaki
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.
酒木
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
酒樹
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
阪木
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
阪記
さかき · Sakaki
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Sakaki 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 佐柿 | さかき | 佐 — assistant, help · 柿 — persimmon | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂喜 | さかき | 坂 — slope, incline · 喜 — rejoice, take pleasure in | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂城 | さかき | 坂 — slope, incline · 城 — castle | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂寄 | さかき | 坂 — slope, incline · 寄 — draw near, stop in | 18 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 坂木 | さかき | 坂 — slope, incline · 木 — tree, wood | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 彭城 | さかき | 彭 — swelling, sound of drum · 城 — castle | 21 | Includes unclassified/outside loaded jōyō-jinmeiyō class |
| 栄木 | さかき | 栄 — flourish, prosperity · 木 — tree, wood | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 榊 | さかき | 榊 — sacred Shinto tree, (kokuji) | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 榊木 | さかき | 榊 — sacred Shinto tree, (kokuji) · 木 — tree, wood | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 賢木 | さかき | 賢 — intelligent, wise · 木 — tree, wood | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒城 | さかき | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 城 — castle | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒寄 | さかき | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 寄 — draw near, stop in | 21 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒木 | さかき | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 木 — tree, wood | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 酒樹 | さかき | 酒 — sake, alcohol · 樹 — timber, trees | 26 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 阪木 | さかき | 阪 — heights, slope · 木 — tree, wood | 11 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 阪記 | さかき | 阪 — heights, slope · 記 — scribe, account | 17 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Sakaki 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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22 recorded spellings
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15 recorded spellings
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13 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
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12 recorded spellings
Explore →Surname · limited referenceSakaya
12 recorded spellings
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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 Sakaki
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
Sakae
佐坂榊酒阪
5 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKisaka
喜坂城木阪
5 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSaki
佐喜寄木酒
5 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSaiki
佐喜城木
4 shared kanji · 32 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSuzuki
喜城木酒
4 shared kanji · 23 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMiki
喜城木酒
4 shared kanji · 17 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipMasaki
佐喜城木
4 shared kanji · 15 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakai
佐坂酒阪
4 shared kanji · 13 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakata
佐坂酒阪
4 shared kanji · 10 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipIki
喜城寄木
4 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipSakamaki
坂榊酒阪
4 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipHōki
喜城寄木
4 shared kanji · 8 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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