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Kanji for Daybreak
The kanji for “daybreak” is 旦, read tan and written in 5 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
旦
daybreak
The sun rising over the horizon.
5 strokes On reading タン、ダン (tan, dan) Kun reading あきらか、あきら、ただし (akiraka, akira, tadashi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: daybreak, dawn, morning
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aki, asa, tan, dan
In Japan it appears in about 68 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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