group-level written forms
Canonical reference record
JMnedict-backedKANJIDIC2 character context
Reference coverageDistinct recorded spellings11 Source spelling/reading rows12 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 Tamegai
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: Tamegai. Personal spelling and true vowel boundaries can differ.
4 morae in this reading. Small ゃ/ゅ/ょ-type kana join the preceding mora.
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Meaning by written form
What can Tamegai 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 “Tamegai”, this page explains each recorded spelling separately.
character meanings available
no kanji meaning attached
based on the exact written form
Kanji spelling
溜貝
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
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
為ケ井
This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.
Characters and loaded glosses
Mixed kanji and kana spelling
為ヶ井
This spelling combines kanji and kana. Dictionary meanings are shown only for the kanji characters; the kana represent sound and do not add a kanji-derived English meaning.
Characters and loaded glosses
Kanji spelling
為我井
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
為谷
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
為貝
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
爲我井
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
爲貝
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
田米開
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
田辺井
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
田部井
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
集貝
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 Tamegai 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.
ためがい
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.
ためがい in the imported JMnedict corpus
0 source spelling/reading rows
12 source spelling/reading rows
row counts carrying each JMnedict source label
| Exact reading | Given-name evidence | Given-name labels | Surname evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| ためがいTamegai | 00 source rows | —source rows · distinct forms: — | 1112 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 Tamegai
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.
13–23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ためがい | Tamegai | 4 | 12 |
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?
5 of 12 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
為我井
為谷
4 source-recorded readings
田部井
3 source-recorded readings
TabuiたぶいTabeiたべいTamegaiためがい · this page
田辺井
2 source-recorded readings
TabeiたべいTamegaiためがい · this page
集貝
2 source-recorded readings
ShūkaiしゅうかいTamegaiためがい · 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 Tamegai 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 井 | well, well crib, town | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | いの, さい, ひ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 為 | do, change, make | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | びい | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 8 |
| 貝 | shellfish | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | — | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 田 | rice field, rice paddy | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | いなか, おか, たん, で +2 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 1 |
| 我 | ego, I, selfish | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | あ, あが, か | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 6 |
| 爲 | change, be of use, reach to | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 10 |
| 溜 | collect, gather, be in arrears | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | — | Jinmeiyō · KANJIDIC grade 9 |
| 谷 | valley | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | がい, がえ, がや, せ +3 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 米 | rice, USA, metre | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | は, べ, まべ, め +4 | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 2 |
| 開 | open, unfold, unseal | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | はる, か, ひらき | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
| 辺 | environs, boundary, border | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | なべ | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 4 |
| 部 | section, bureau, dept | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | とり, ふ, ぺ, ま | Jōyō · KANJIDIC grade 3 |
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
溜貝
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
為ケ井
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
為ヶ井
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい
Characters in order
Exact written form
為我井
Characters in order
Exact written form
為谷
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Characters in order
Exact written form
為貝
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
爲我井
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
爲貝
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
田米開
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
Tamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Exact written form
田辺井
Source-recorded full-name readings in this name class
TabeiたべいTamegaiためがい · this page
Characters in order
Showing research maps for the first 10 distinct written forms out of 12. Every detailed spelling card below still links to exact-writing search and its component kanji.
Corpus pattern
Kanji recurring across Tamegai 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 Tamegai
12 source-recorded forms use the primary source reading ためがい. 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.
溜貝
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
為ケ井
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
為ヶ井
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
為我井
ためがい · Tamegai
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.
為谷
ためがい · Tamegai
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.
為貝
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
爲我井
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
爲貝
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
田米開
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
田辺井
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
田部井
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
集貝
ためがい · Tamegai
Character-set checkAll kanji are classified as jōyō/jinmeiyō in KANJIDIC2
Spelling comparator
Compare Tamegai 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 溜貝 | ためがい | 溜 — collect, gather · 貝 — shellfish | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 為ケ井 | ためがい | 為 — do, change · 井 — well, well crib | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 為ヶ井 | ためがい | 為 — do, change · 井 — well, well crib | 13 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 為我井 | ためがい | 為 — do, change · 我 — ego, I · 井 — well, well crib | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 為谷 | ためがい | 為 — do, change · 谷 — valley | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 為貝 | ためがい | 為 — do, change · 貝 — shellfish | 16 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 爲我井 | ためがい | 爲 — change, be of use · 我 — ego, I · 井 — well, well crib | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 爲貝 | ためがい | 爲 — change, be of use · 貝 — shellfish | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 田米開 | ためがい | 田 — rice field, rice paddy · 米 — rice, USA · 開 — open, unfold | 23 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 田辺井 | ためがい | 田 — rice field, rice paddy · 辺 — environs, boundary · 井 — well, well crib | 14 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 田部井 | ためがい | 田 — rice field, rice paddy · 部 — section, bureau · 井 — well, well crib | 20 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
| 集貝 | ためがい | 集 — gather, meet · 貝 — shellfish | 19 | All kanji jōyō/jinmeiyō-classified |
What does Tamegai 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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6 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
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5 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
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4 recorded spellings
Explore →Shared-kanji relationships
Other surnames sharing kanji with Tamegai
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
Tagai
井我為田貝
5 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTameda
溜為爲田米
5 shared kanji · 5 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTanī
井為爲谷
4 shared kanji · 8 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipIgai
井我為貝
4 shared kanji · 7 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipYagai
井谷貝開
4 shared kanji · 6 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTame
溜為爲米
4 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTamegaya
溜為爲谷
4 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipTamei
井溜為爲
4 shared kanji · 4 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKaida
田貝開
3 shared kanji · 14 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKaita
田貝開
3 shared kanji · 12 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipKai
井貝開
3 shared kanji · 9 matching source-recorded spellings
Inspect name →Surname relationshipIkai
井貝開
3 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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