Dear Japanese名前と漢字

Kenji

健二けんじ

A boy name with 3 common kanji spellings. The most typical, 健二, combines healthy + two.

Hiragana
けんじ
Katakana
ケンジ
Romaji (Hepburn)
Kenji
Morae
3 けんじ
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 Kenji. See the guide to -chan and -kun.

  • けんくんken-kun
  • けんちゃんken-chan
  • けんじくんkenji-kun
  • けんじちゃんkenji-chan
  • けーちゃんke-chan

As a full name

In Japanese the surname comes first.

Names that share a kanji