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Kanji for Stretch
The kanji for “stretch” is 伸, read shin and written in 7 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
stretch
To stretch and grow; boundless potential.
7 strokes On reading シン (shin) Kun reading のびる、のばす、のべる (nobiru, nobasu, noberu) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: expand, stretch, extend, lengthen, increase
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shin, no, nobu
In Japan it appears in about 377 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
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