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Kanji for Tribute
The kanji for “tribute” is 貢, read kou and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
貢
tribute
To give and contribute to others.
10 strokes On reading コウ、ク (kou, ku) Kun reading みつぐ (mitsugu) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: tribute, support, finance
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ku, kou, mitsu
In Japan it appears in about 65 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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