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Kanji for Bloom
The kanji for “bloom” is 咲, read shou and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
bloom
To bloom; flowers opening in spring.
In ancient Japanese, this character originally meant "to smile" before coming to mean a flower blooming.
9 strokes On reading ショウ (shou) Kun reading さく、ざき (saku, zaki) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: blossom, bloom
Readings used for names on Nazuke: sa, saki, saku
In Japan it appears in about 1,259 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 咲: Sara 咲良 · Isaac 愛咲空 · Sarah 咲良 · Alyssa 安里咲 · Melissa 芽里咲 · Spencer 日平咲 · Vanessa 羽音咲 · Samantha 咲真紗 · Nathaniel 奈咲仁恵瑠 · Elsa 恵瑠咲 · Enza 燕咲 · Otha 雄咲 and 156 more
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