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Kanji for Home
The kanji for “home” is 家, read ka and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
home
Home and family; where you belong.
10 strokes On reading カ、ケ (ka, ke) Kun reading いえ、や、うち (ie, ya, uchi) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: house, home, family, professional, expert
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ie, ke
In Japan it appears in about 138 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 家: Raphael 良葉家瑠
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