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Kanji for Lineage
The kanji for “lineage” is 胤, read in and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
胤
lineage
Descendants and heritage; a family line carried forward.
9 strokes On reading イン (in) Kun reading たね (tane) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: descendent, issue, offspring
Readings used for names on Nazuke: in, tane, tsugu
In Japan it appears in about 127 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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