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じんめいようかんじ 人名用漢字
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1. jinmeiyō kanji; non-jōyō kanji legally permitted for use in personal names​
Wikipedia definition
2. Jinmeiyō kanji​The jinmeiyō kanji (人名用漢字, lit. Chinese characters for use in personal names) are a set of 861 Chinese characters known as the "name kanji" in English. They are a supplementary set of characters that can be legally used in registered personal names in Japan, despite not being in that country's set of "commonly used characters". As a rule, registered personal names may contain only jōyō kanji, jinmeiyō kanji, katakana and hiragana.
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