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Kanji for Transparency
The kanji for “transparency” is 透, read tou and written in 10 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
transparency
See-through and clear; a pure and honest heart.
Sukashibori is a refined Japanese openwork carving technique famously used on antique samurai sword handguards (Tsuba).
10 strokes On reading トウ (tou) Kun reading すく、すかす、すける (suku, sukasu, sukeru) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: transparent, permeate, filter, penetrate
Readings used for names on Nazuke: su, to, tou, tooru
In Japan it appears in about 94 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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