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in reply to a message by Sean
Most Japanese names sites list "Kaori" as a masculine name, meaning "add a man's strength".
However, I did find one site which lists it as a feminine name meaning "fragrant": http://www.angelfire.com/anime/darkreflection/names.html
The difference between the masculine and feminine versions of "Kaori" most likely depend on how the kanji characters are written.
An older book of Japanese names which I have shows "Kaoru" to be a feminine name meaning "fragrant".
-- Nanaea
However, I did find one site which lists it as a feminine name meaning "fragrant": http://www.angelfire.com/anime/darkreflection/names.html
The difference between the masculine and feminine versions of "Kaori" most likely depend on how the kanji characters are written.
An older book of Japanese names which I have shows "Kaoru" to be a feminine name meaning "fragrant".
-- Nanaea
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Where can I find the masculine kanji character for Kaori?
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I know a female Kaori :)
She's about thirty-five and was born in Japan.
All the sources I can find list it as a female name....
She's about thirty-five and was born in Japan.
All the sources I can find list it as a female name....
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I do know of a female manga artist name Kaori Yuki. Her name is written with the characters D—¢, which your computer may or may not be able to display. An online dictionary says that the first character means "incense" on its own and is a part of the word kaori, which means fragrance and is apparently also a name, but is written differently. The second character is listed as meaning "weave; weaving; woven item." The third on its own is listed as "(old measure); 2.44 miles," which is a little odd, but it's also part of a bunch of seemingly unrelated words. Anyway. I have no idea what the name means if it does have a coherent meaning, but there's another example of a possible set of characters.
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Kaori means fragrant, good smeall and yuki means snow, than it could be a snow that smealls good... (?)Anyway, it feets good and is a cute name! Maybe their parents just decided to put two names toguether not thinking about their meaning!
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