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Kanji for Fragrant
The kanji for “fragrant” is 芳, read hou and written in 7 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
fragrant
Sweet fragrance; a good name that spreads far.
7 strokes On reading ホウ (hou) Kun reading かんばしい (kanbashii) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: perfume, balmy, favorable, fragrant
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kaoru, ha, ho, hou, michi, yoshi
In Japan it appears in about 656 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 芳: Foster 芳寿太 · Porter 芳太 · Faustina 芳寿天奈 · Josue 芳寿栄 · Haakon 芳湖 · Josefa 芳世葉 · Arnulfo 亜瑠乃琉芳 · Faustino 芳寿天能 · Johana 芳愛奈 · Paulita 芳里太
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