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Kanji for Faraway
The kanji for “faraway” is 遥, read you and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
遥
faraway
Far away; a distant horizon.
12 strokes On reading ヨウ (you) Kun reading はるか (haruka) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: far off, distant, long ago
Readings used for names on Nazuke: haru, you
In Japan it appears in about 161 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 遥: Yon 遥 · Yolanda 遥藍那
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