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Kanji for Hollyhock
The kanji for “hollyhock” is 葵, read ki and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
hollyhock
The hollyhock, the crest of the Tokugawa shoguns.
The three-leaf hollyhock (Mitsuba Aoi) was the prestigious family crest of the Tokugawa shogunate ruling feudal Japan.
12 strokes On reading キ (ki) Kun reading あおい (aoi) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: hollyhock
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ao, aoi, ki, mamoru
In Japan it appears in about 384 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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