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Name compatibility

Enter two names and each letter becomes a number in a pyramid

🔒 Names are calculated on this device and never sent anywhere

How name compatibility is calculated

It's the classic notebook trick Korean students play during school breaks. It's all for fun.

  1. 1. Write the letters of the two names one at a time, alternating between them.
  2. 2. Write a number under each letter: stroke count for Hangul, kanji and kana, alphabet position for Latin letters (A=1, B=2 …), and Thai numerology values for Thai script.
  3. 3. Add each pair of neighboring numbers and write just the ones digit on the line below.
  4. 4. Repeat until only two numbers are left. Those two digits are your compatibility percentage.
Consonant stroke counts (final consonants use the same numbers)
ㄱ 2 · ㄴ 2 · ㄷ 3 · ㄹ 5 · ㅁ 4 · ㅂ 4 · ㅅ 2 · ㅇ 1 · ㅈ 3 · ㅊ 4 · ㅋ 3 · ㅌ 4 · ㅍ 4 · ㅎ 3

Stroke data: Unicode Unihan 15.0 · KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0)