良: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- good, pleasing, skilled
- On readings (katakana)
- リョウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- よ.い、-よ.い、い.い、-い.い
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- じ、なが、まこと、よし、ら、りょ、ろう
- Strokes
- 7
- Grade
- 4: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 4
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 501 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 량
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 良
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.