Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Aoi

葵あおい

A unisex name with 3 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 葵, combines hollyhock.

Hiragana
あおい
Katakana
アオイ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Aoi
Morae
3 あおい
Gender
Unisex

Kanji spellings

The same name can be written with different characters. Parents choose the kanji for its meaning.

Nicknames

How friends and family might shorten Aoi. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • あおちゃんao-chan
  • あおくんao-kun
  • あおいちゃんaoi-chan
  • あおいくんaoi-kun
  • あーちゃんa-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji