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Kanji for Stay
The kanji for “stay” is 留, read ryuu and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
stay
To stay and remain; someone who stays by your side.
10 strokes On reading リュウ、ル (ryuu, ru) Kun reading とめる、とまる、とどめる (tomeru, tomaru, todomeru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: detain, fasten, halt, stop
Readings used for names on Nazuke: tome, ryuu, ru
In Japan it appears in about 626 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 留: Gabriel 芽風里恵留 · Gabrielle 芽風里恵留 · Oriol 織央留 · Oskar 緒珠香留 · Petrus 平登留寿 · Valmir 羽瑠実留 · Amilcar 安実琉香留 · Carsten 佳留寿天 · Encarna 燕香留南 · Irmgard 伊琉武佳留人 · Karsten 佳留寿天 · Purnama 風留菜満 and 143 more
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