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Kanji for Greens
The kanji for “greens” is 菜, read sai and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
菜
greens
Fresh greens and the yellow rapeseed flowers of spring.
11 strokes On reading サイ (sai) Kun reading な (na) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: vegetable, side dish, greens
Readings used for names on Nazuke: na
In Japan it appears in about 2,429 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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