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Kanji for Deep blue
The kanji for “deep blue” is 蒼, read sou and written in 13 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
deep blue
The deep blue-green of the open ocean and old forests.
13 strokes On reading ソウ (sou) Kun reading あおい (aoi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: blue, pale
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ao, sou
In Japan it appears in about 186 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 蒼: So 蒼 · Zoe 蒼生 · Saul 蒼瑠 · Zola 蒼良 · Zona 蒼七 · Sonja 蒼新安 · Sonya 蒼新安 · Isobel 藍蒼得 · Sophie 蒼陽 · Corazon 湖良蒼 · Saundra 蒼道良 · Lorenzo 路蓮蒼 and 13 more
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