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Kanji for Crest
The kanji for “crest” is 紋, read mon and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
crest
A family crest (kamon), the symbol of a Japanese house.
Kamon are traditional Japanese family heraldic crests, numbering over twenty thousand unique stylized nature and geometric designs.
10 strokes On reading モン (mon) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: family crest, figures
Readings used for names on Nazuke: aya, mon
In Japan it appears in about 118 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 紋: Simon 咲生紋 · Montse 紋登世 · Solomon 蘇路紋 · Montserrat 紋登世良桐
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