明: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- bright, light
- On readings (katakana)
- メイ、ミョウ、ミン
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- あ.かり、あか.るい、あか.るむ、あか.らむ、あき.らか、あ.ける、-あ.け、あ.く、あ.くる、あ.かす
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- あきら、あけ、あす、きら、け、さや、さやか、とし、はる、み、め
- Strokes
- 8
- Grade
- 2: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 2
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 67 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 명
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 明
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.