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Kanji for Stillness
The kanji for “stillness” is 静, read sei and written in 14 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
stillness
Quiet, calm and composed, even in a storm.
14 strokes On reading セイ、ジョウ (sei, jou) Kun reading しず、しずか、しずまる (shizu, shizuka, shizumaru) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: quiet
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shizu, jou, se, sei
In Japan it appears in about 433 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 静: Huseyin 風静 · Theodore 静央斗愛 · Sepp 静風 · Thea 静愛 · Theo 静央 · Jolie 静里 · Marce 真瑠静 · Cedric 静登里玖 · Segundo 静玖道 · Serafim 静楽日夢 · September 静風天葉 · Sergio 静琉詩央 and 2 more
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