成: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- turn into, become, get, grow, elapse, reach
- On readings (katakana)
- セイ、ジョウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- な.る、な.す、-な.す
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- あき、あきら、しげ、そん、たえ、なお、なり、なる、のり、ひら、まさ、よし、り
- Strokes
- 6
- Grade
- 4: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 4
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 116 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 성
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 成
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.