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Kanji for Wisteria
The kanji for “wisteria” is 藤, read tou and written in 18 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
wisteria
Wisteria, whose purple flowers hang in long, graceful cascades each spring.
The cascading purple wisteria (Fuji) was the sacred floral crest of the powerful Fujiwara clan in the Heian period.
18 strokes On reading トウ、ドウ (tou, dou) Kun reading ふじ (fuji) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: wisteria
Readings used for names on Nazuke: to, tou, dou, fuji
In Japan it appears in about 211 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, in both boys’ and girls’ names.
Names written with 藤: Thomas 藤真寿 · Adhe 安藤平 · Tome 藤芽 · Toni 藤仁 · Tono 藤野 · Toya 藤依愛 · Tran 藤藍 · Tyas 藤弥寿 · Budhi 武藤日 · Retno 礼藤野 · Tobie 藤陽 · Tomas 藤満寿 and 94 more
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