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Kanji for Broad
The kanji for “broad” is 弘, read kou and written in 5 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
弘
broad
Wide and generous; spreading good far and wide.
5 strokes On reading コウ、グ (kou, gu) Kun reading ひろい (hiroi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: vast, broad, wide
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kou, hiro
In Japan it appears in about 783 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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