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Kanji for Rainbow
The kanji for “rainbow” is 虹, read kou and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
虹
rainbow
A rainbow; hope after the rain.
9 strokes On reading コウ (kou) Kun reading にじ (niji) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: rainbow
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kou, niji
In Japan it appears in about 313 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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