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Kanji for Sound
The kanji for “sound” is 音, read on and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
sound
Sound and music; a voice that carries.
9 strokes On reading オン、イン、-ノン (on, in, -non) Kun reading おと、ね (oto, ne) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: sound, noise
Readings used for names on Nazuke: in, o, oto, on, to, ne
In Japan it appears in about 1,819 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 音: Scott 寿湖音 · Nathan 音生燦 · Robert 路羽音 · Trevor 音礼羽 · Antonio 安音新緒 · Caitlin 慶音凛 · Garrett 義礼音 · Kaitlyn 慶音凛 · Katelyn 慶音凛 · Kenneth 希音寿 · Vanessa 羽音冴 · Whitney 帆生音新 and 403 more
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