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Kanji for New
The kanji for “new” is 新, read shin and written in 13 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
new
Fresh beginnings and new things.
13 strokes On reading シン (shin) Kun reading あたらしい、あらた、あら (atarashii, arata, ara) JLPT N4
Dictionary meanings: new
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ara, shin, ni, nii
In Japan it appears in about 261 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 新: Ninik 新仁空 · Ninni 新仁 · Beni 平新 · Feni 平新 · Heny 平新 · Jani 弥新 · Nida 新太 · Nita 新太 · Yani 弥新 · Benny 平新 · Berni 平琉新 · Bunny 羽新 and 73 more
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