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Kanji for Extend
The kanji for “extend” is 延, read en and written in 8 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
延
extend
To extend and stretch on; a long, happy life.
8 strokes On reading エン (en) Kun reading のびる、のべる、のべ (nobiru, noberu, nobe) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: prolong, stretching
Readings used for names on Nazuke: en, nobu
In Japan it appears in about 232 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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