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Kanji for Fondness
The kanji for “fondness” is 好, read kou and written in 6 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
fondness
To like and be liked; it shows a woman (女) holding a child (子).
6 strokes On reading コウ (kou) Kun reading このむ、すく、よい (konomu, suku, yoi) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: fond, pleasing, like something
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ko, kou, yoshi
In Japan it appears in about 556 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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