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Kanji for Awaken
The kanji for “awaken” is 覚, read kaku and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
覚
awaken
To awaken, learn and remember.
12 strokes On reading カク (kaku) Kun reading おぼえる、さます、さめる (oboeru, samasu, sameru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: memorize, learn, remember, awake, sober up
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kaku, sato
In Japan it appears in about 120 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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