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Kanji for Loyalty
The kanji for “loyalty” is 忠, read chuu and written in 8 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
loyalty
Loyalty and sincerity from the heart (心), the virtue prized by samurai.
The legend of the 47 Ronin, celebrated in the classic tale Chushingura (忠臣蔵), immortalizes the supreme ideal of samurai loyalty.
8 strokes On reading チュウ (chuu) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: loyalty, fidelity, faithfulness
Readings used for names on Nazuke: kiyoshi, tada, tadashi, chuu
In Japan it appears in about 547 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in boys’ names.
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