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Kanji for Fair
The kanji for “fair” is 公, read kou and written in 4 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
公
fair
Fair and public-minded.
4 strokes On reading コウ、ク (kou, ku) Kun reading おおやけ (ooyake) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: public, prince, official, governmental
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kimi, ku, kou, masa
In Japan it appears in about 616 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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