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Kanji for Gentleness
The kanji for “gentleness” is 優, read yuu and written in 17 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
gentleness
Gentle, kind and excellent. A favorite in Japanese names.
17 strokes On reading ユウ、ウ (yuu, u) Kun reading やさしい、すぐれる、まさる (yasashii, sugureru, masaru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority
Readings used for names on Nazuke: yuu
In Japan it appears in about 1,422 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 優: Yu 優 · Ula 優良 · Eula 優良 · Yuko 優湖 · Eugene 優慈 · Eunice 優新寿 · Eugenia 優慈寧 · Eugenie 優慈新 · Eugenio 優慈音央 · Eusebio 優詩恵央 · Julieta 優里楽
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