陽: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- sunshine, yang principle, positive, male, heaven, daytime
- On readings (katakana)
- ヨウ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- ひ
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- あき、あきら、あけ、はる、ひろ、やん、よ
- Strokes
- 12
- Grade
- 3: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 3
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 1071 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 양
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 陽
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.