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Kanji for Youth
The kanji for “youth” is 若, read jaku and written in 8 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
youth
Young, fresh and full of possibility.
8 strokes On reading ジャク、ニャク、ニャ (jaku, nyaku, nya) Kun reading わかい、わか、もしくわ (wakai, waka, moshikuwa) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: young, if, perhaps, possibly, low number
Readings used for names on Nazuke: jaku, mo, waka
In Japan it appears in about 156 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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