Japanese-English Personal Names

Japanese-English Personal Names

Covers over 550,000 entries

Japanese and non-Japanese names

Hiragana and romanized readings

Overview

CJKI’s Database of Japanese-English Personal Names (JEN) covers over 550,000 entries consisting of surnames and given names (not full names). JEN includes various data fields such as hiragana and romanized readings, classification codes and locale codes, English equivalents, frequency statistics, and Chinese, Korean equivalents.

Japanese-English Personal Names

Practical Applications

JEN is used by some of the world’s major IT companies in a wide variety of applications, such as:

Machine translation

Information retrieval

Morphological analysis

Named-entity recognition

Input method editors

Electronic dictionaries

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JNV

Japanese Personal Name Variants

Japanese personal names and their romanized variants

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Korean-Japanese Personal Names

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CEN

Chinese-English Personal Names

Chinese-English database of CJK and Western personal names