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Kanji for Imagine
The kanji for “imagine” is 想, read sou and written in 13 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
想
imagine
To think of someone; imagination.
13 strokes On reading ソウ、ソ (sou, so) Kun reading おもう (omou) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: concept, think, idea, thought
Readings used for names on Nazuke: omo, sou
In Japan it appears in about 126 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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