Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Hikari

光ひかり

A girl name with 3 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 光, combines light.

Hiragana
ひかり
Katakana
ヒカリ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Hikari
Morae
3 ひかり
Gender
Girl

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

  • ひかちゃんhika-chan
  • ひかりちゃんhikari-chan
  • ひーちゃんhi-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji