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[Facts] ARI = "ant" in Japanese?
Somebody told me, ARI means "ant" in Japanese. - Can anybody confirm this? Rene maybe?
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Yes, Ari is a Japanese girls' name. For questions like this I like to look at a site (it's entirely in Japanese) which lists over 118,000 Japanese girls' names with every known Kanji spelling. There are 37 different kanji spellings of Ari given; however, none of them is the Kanji meaning "ant"!
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Yes, seems to be correct:
http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=87fb
(search for "Japanese Kun" on this page which is the Japanese reading of this kanji)
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Rarely, but usually used a surname.
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