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Kanji for Come true
The kanji for “come true” is 叶, read kyou and written in 5 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
come true
For a wish to come true.
It combines a mouth (口) and ten (十): say it ten times and it comes true.
5 strokes On reading キョウ (kyou) Kun reading かなえる、かなう (kanaeru, kanau) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: grant, answer
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kana, kano, kanou, kyou
In Japan it appears in about 224 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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