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Kanji for Enlightenment
The kanji for “enlightenment” is 悟, read go and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
enlightenment
To realize and awaken; sudden understanding.
Satori (悟り) represents the supreme spiritual awakening and sudden enlightenment sought in Zen Buddhist practice.
10 strokes On reading ゴ (go) Kun reading さとる (satoru) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: enlightenment, perceive, discern, realize, understand
Readings used for names on Nazuke: go, sato
In Japan it appears in about 99 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 悟: Gaute 悟定 · Golda 悟瑠太 · Gomes 悟芽寿 · Gonza 悟咲 · Goran 悟藍 · Gorka 悟瑠佳 · Godwin 悟登偉 · Golden 悟瑠天 · Goldie 悟瑠路 · Godfrey 悟斗風里 · Goncalo 悟夏路 · Gonzalo 悟彩路 and 16 more
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