Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Kenichi

健一けんいち

A boy name with 2 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 健一, combines healthy + one.

Hiragana
けんいち
Katakana
ケンイチ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Ken'ichi
Morae
4 けんいち
Gender
Boy

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 Kenichi. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • けんくんken-kun
  • けんちゃんken-chan
  • けんいちくんken'ichi-kun
  • けんいちちゃんken'ichi-chan
  • けーちゃんke-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji