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Kanji for Sound
The kanji for “sound” is 音, read on and written in 9 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
sound
Sound and music; a voice that carries.
9 strokes On reading オン、イン、-ノン (on, in, -non) Kun reading おと、ね (oto, ne) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: sound, noise
Readings used for names on Nazuke: in, o, oto, on, to, ne, non
In Japan it appears in about 1,819 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 音: Nathan 音偉山 · Kenneth 賢音澄 · Vanessa 羽音咲 · Ine 唯音 · Ned 音斗 · Nel 音瑠 · Neo 音緒 · Ney 音偉 · Enes 英音日 · Ines 唯音日 · Inez 唯音鶴 · Kine 希音 and 169 more
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