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Kanji for Plain
The kanji for “plain” is 原, read gen and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
原
plain
An open plain, and the origin of things.
10 strokes On reading ゲン (gen) Kun reading はら (hara) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: meadow, original, primitive, field, plain
Readings used for names on Nazuke: gen, hara
In Japan it appears in about 60 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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