愛: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- love, affection, favourite
- On readings (katakana)
- アイ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- いと.しい、かな.しい、め.でる、お.しむ、まな
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- あ、あし、え、かな、なる、めぐ、めぐみ、よし、ちか
- Strokes
- 13
- Grade
- 4: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 4
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 640 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 애
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 愛
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.