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Kanji for Cultivate
The kanji for “cultivate” is 耕, read kou and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
耕
cultivate
To plow the land; hard work that bears fruit.
10 strokes On reading コウ (kou) Kun reading たがやす (tagayasu) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: till, plow, cultivate
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kou
In Japan it appears in about 177 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in boys’ names.
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