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Kanji for Everlasting

The kanji for “everlasting” is 久, read kyuu and written in 3 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.

久

everlasting

Long-lasting and enduring, like an old friendship.

3 strokes On reading キュウ、ク (kyuu, ku) Kun reading ひさしい (hisashii) JLPT N2

Dictionary meanings: long time, old story

Readings used for names on Nazuke: kyuu, ku, hisa, hisashi

In Japan it appears in about 1,985 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.

Names written with 久: Alex 愛玲久寿 · Luke 瑠久 · Blake 武怜久 · Alexis 愛玲久志寿 · Victor 美久太 · Crystal 久里寿太瑠 · Kristen 久里寿天 · Patrick 鳩理久 · Victoria 美久登里愛 · Alexandra 安礼久紗登良 · Christian 久里寿茶 · Christina 久里寿天奈 and 395 more

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