name; famous

Builds 54 distinct compound words — ranked #80 of 100 for productivity.

音 on: メイ・ミョウ
訓 kun: な

A name, and having one — being known. 名前 a name, 有名 famous, 名刺 a business card.

The ten most common compounds built on 名. Tap any word that leads to another mapped character to follow it.

54compounds built

1,383times those words occur

#85by productivity alone

#119by how often it turns up

Where 名 leads

Other characters from the top 100 that share a word with 名. Each one opens its own map.

前before; front名前#40 付attach名付ける#41 屋shop; roof; dealer名古屋#74 有have; exist有名#100

Words built on 名

名前なまえ463 uses 有名ゆうめい276 uses

名な159 uses

名付けるなづける68 uses

名声めいせい67 uses

署名しょめい47 uses

名古屋なごや35 uses

名誉めいよ31 uses

名簿めいぼ14 uses

名案めいあん14 uses

Counts from the Tanaka Corpus index via Tatoeba, 1,178,504 words of segmented Japanese. Tatoeba sentences are contributed by learners and teachers, so frequencies reflect textbook Japanese rather than a general corpus. Compound readings are generated — from the corpus where it records one, otherwise from a tokenizer — and are omitted rather than guessed where neither resolves the word. Character meanings and on/kun readings are written by hand.