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Kanji for Gentleness
The kanji for “gentleness” is 優, read yuu and written in 17 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
gentleness
Gentle, kind and excellent. A favorite in Japanese names.
優 combines “person” (亻) and “sorrow” (憂); people often say true kindness means feeling another’s sorrow.
17 strokes On reading ユウ、ウ (yuu, u) Kun reading やさしい、すぐれる、まさる (yasashii, sugureru, masaru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: tenderness, excel, surpass, actor, superiority
Readings used for names on Nazuke: u, sugu, masa, yu, yuu, yoshi
In Japan it appears in about 1,422 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 優: Ayu 愛優 · Ula 優良 · Bayu 羽優 · Eula 優良 · Yuri 優理 · Wahyu 和優 · Yudhi 優土陽 · Yusuf 優寿風 · Yuyun 夕優 · Eugene 優慈 · Eunice 優仁寿 · Juhani 優羽仁 and 20 more
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