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Kanji for Smile
The kanji for “smile” is 笑, read shou and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
smile
A smile and laughter; the Japanese saying goes, “fortune comes to a smiling home.”
10 strokes On reading ショウ (shou) Kun reading わらう、えむ (warau, emu) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: laugh
Readings used for names on Nazuke: e, emi, shou
In Japan it appears in about 431 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 笑: Emily 笑里 · Emil 笑瑠 · Emilia 笑里安 · Emilie 笑里 · Emilio 笑里緒 · Emmitt 笑音 · Nieves 新恵笑寿 · Evelina 恵笑里七 · Eveline 恵笑凛 · Everett 恵笑礼音 · Yevette 恵笑音 · Everette 恵笑礼音 and 306 more
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