⌘K

名 — name, reputation

な名 name

Grade 1 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 6 strokes

U+540D Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #177 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #112 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

name
reputation

word

な na Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

名(な) na name 名(な) づける nazukeru to name 名(な) 前(まえ) namae name 名(な) 古(ご) 屋(や) nagoya Nagoya 名(な) 乗(の) る nanoru to give one's name 名(な) 無(な) し nanashi anonymous 名(な) 付(づ) ける nazukeru to name 仮(か) 名(な) kana kana (Japanese syllabary)

めい mei On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

名(めい) 目(もく) meimoku name 名(めい) 人(じん) meijin master 名(めい) 作(さく) meisaku masterpiece 地(ち) 名(めい) chimei place name 名(めい) 言(げん) meigen famous saying 社(しゃ) 名(めい) shamei company name 名(めい) 声(せい) meisei fame 書(しょ) 名(めい) shomei book title

みょう myou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

名(みょう) 字(じ) myouji surname 本(ほん) 名(みょう) honmyou real name

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

ゆう夕 evening #36

くち口 mouth #30

Used as component in (1)

めい銘 inscription

Compound ideograph (会意). 夕 (evening/darkness) over 口 (mouth). In the dark, one calls out one's name — identity declared when the face cannot be seen.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#30 口 mouth