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Re: The name Kazumi- what does it mean and what do you think?
I checked your interpretation of Kazumi = kazu (harmony, peace) + mi (beauty). And indeed, the most frequent kanji writing of the name that I could find was this combination:
和美This should answer the original poster's question about Kazumi.But what now about Kasumi = mist, according to BtN? It seems that Kazumi and Kasumi are two different names, and the most frequent kanji writing for Kasumi seems to be the kanji for "mist":
And finally, just to make it a little more complicated still, there is a third, very similar, but distinct given name Katsumi, this time mostly male instead of female like Kazumi and Kasumi. It seems to be frequent among Japanese men that are already somewhat older, and is frequently written with the two kanji meaning "self-control":
克己But anyway, I found much confusion about this tripple of names:
- All three have alternative kanji writings and thus other meanings as well
- I am not sure, but I think for all three names I saw examples of the oposite sex carrying the name, i.e. male Kasumi's and Kazumi's
- The Romanization is not consistent, with people sometimes writing Katsumi when they should write Kazumi, and writing Kazumi when they should write Kasumi, and so on...
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Well the misspelling of Kazumi as Kasumi by Caprice is what lead me to try find out more and so actually answer the posters question.It is not surpising that 'mi' meaning beaty is in the most popular kanji combination for Kazumi. It's so popular for many girls names.Romanization never seems to be consistent. For example I saw a boy I know called Ryousuke had his name written Ryosuke and Ryoske in the past few weeks. Even in my post I accidentally spelt Kazumi as Kasumi!

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