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Kanji for Empress
The kanji for “empress” is 后, read kou and written in 6 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
后
empress
An empress; dignified and graceful.
6 strokes On reading コウ、ゴ (kou, go) Kun reading きさき (kisaki) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: empress, queen, after, behind, back
Readings used for names on Nazuke: go
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