意: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- idea, mind, heart, taste, thought, desire, care, liking
- On readings (katakana)
- イ
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- もと、よし
- Strokes
- 13
- Grade
- 3: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 3
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 99 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 의
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 意
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.