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Temari, Wind Release kunoichi
Sunagakure

Temari

テマリ · 手鞠

Also known as Wind User, Sand Siblings

Quick facts

Gender
Female
Clan
Ninja Rank
Jōnin
Vital Status
Alive
Debut Arc
Chūnin Exams
Birthday
08-23
Height
165 cm
Village
Sunagakure
Dossier · 02Registry Summary

Who Is Temari?

Registry summary

Temari is a kunoichi of Sunagakure and the eldest of the Three Sand Siblings. A Wind Release specialist who fights with a giant iron fan, she pairs raw power with a strategist's cold patience — and by the Fourth Shinobi World War she was named the finest wind user in her entire division.

Dossier · 03Origins

Background & Origins

Temari was born in Sunagakure, a daughter of the Fourth Kazekage, and raised inside the Hidden Sand's hard, unforgiving shinobi training.

She is the eldest of the Sand Siblings — sister to Kankurō, and to Gaara, the youngest, the brother the whole village had learned to fear.

Growing up beside an unstable Gaara taught Temari to be careful before she was anything else. She learned early to stay calm, to read a room, and to keep her own counsel.

Dossier · 04Growth

Temari: Story Arc

  1. The Kazekage's daughter

    Raised hard, raised eldest

    Temari grows up in Sunagakure, a child of the Fourth Kazekage, put through the village's gruelling training. As the eldest of three, she learns to carry weight before she is grown.

  2. The Chūnin ExamsDebut Arc · Chūnin Exams

    A cool, calculated win

    Temari enters the Konoha Chūnin Exams. Against Shikamaru Nara she stays perfectly composed — measuring the reach of his shadow and never once stepping inside it — and takes the match.

  3. The brother she watched

    The long unease

    For years, Temari lives beside a Gaara nobody can predict — a brother and a danger at once. It is the one shadow over her steady life, and she carries it quietly until he changes.

  4. The Suna–Konoha alliance

    The bridge between villages

    As Sunagakure and Konohagakure draw closer, Temari becomes a regular envoy between them — the steady, trusted figure who keeps two allied villages talking to each other.

  5. The war's strongest wind

    Finest in the division

    In the Fourth Shinobi World War, Temari is named the strongest Wind Release user in her division — and proves it, landing real damage on the Third Raikage, whose body almost nothing could hurt.

  6. Two villages, one life

    Sand and Leaf, drawn closer

    Temari ends the series at peace, her life threaded through both Sunagakure and Konohagakure — a quiet proof that the old walls between villages no longer have to hold.

Dossier · 05Combat

Abilities & Signature Jutsu

Temari fights from a distance, and she fights having already thought it through. Her giant iron fan turns wind into a weapon that can flatten a forest, and the three "moons" along its length let her dial that power up step by step. But the fan is only half of her — the other half is a strategist's mind that reads an opponent's range and weakness before the first gust ever lands.

Signature weapon

The Giant Iron Fan

Temari's signature weapon, marked with three purple "moons." Each moon she opens raises the power of the wind she sends out.

Nature · Wind

Wind Release Mastery

Gusts strong enough to level a forest, and slicing whirlwinds Temari steers across the battlefield with her chakra.

Wind Release

Wind Scythe Jutsu

A cutting blade of compressed wind, swung from the fan to strike an enemy at long range.

Summoning

Summoning: Kamatari

Temari summons Kamatari, a one-eyed wind-scythe weasel that sweeps an entire area clear in a single pass.

Tactical skill

Battlefield Reading

Temari's strategist's mind — calculating an opponent's range and weakness, and committing only once the maths is done.

Dossier · 06Bonds

Temari's Key Relationships

Dossier · 07Game Tip

Temari in Narutodle

Classic grid profile

Gender

Female

Clan

None

VillageRare

Sunagakure

RankRare

Jōnin

Jutsu

Ninjutsu, Fūinjutsu, Taijutsu

NatureRare

Wind

Kekkei Genkai

None

Attributes

None

Debut

Chūnin Exams

Temari's Nature Types column holds only Wind — a clean single-nature reading that narrows the board well. Her Sunagakure village trims it further, and her Jōnin rank trims a little more. She has no clan, no Kekkei Genkai, and an empty Attributes column, so three columns stay grey on her. She debuts in the Chūnin Exams, an early arc, so the Debut Arc arrow points down toward her.

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Dossier · 08In His Words

Temari: Notable Quotes

Rushing in is how you lose. I will know your range, your weakness, and your next move before I open this fan.
Naruto · Chūnin Exams arc
Gaara is my brother. Whatever he was, whatever he became — I never once stopped being that.
Naruto Shippūden · on Gaara
Sand and Leaf used to count each other as enemies. Look at us now. I would rather build that than guard a wall.
Naruto Shippūden · on the alliance
Dossier · 09Questions

Temari FAQ

  • Who is Temari?
    Temari is a kunoichi of Sunagakure and the eldest of the Three Sand Siblings, sister to Kankurō and Gaara. A Wind Release specialist who fights with a giant iron fan, she is also one of the sharpest strategists in the series.
  • What is Temari's fan?
    Temari fights with a giant iron fan marked with three purple circles she calls "moons." As she opens the fan to reveal each one, the power of her wind grows; with all three showing, she can send out slicing whirlwinds guided by her chakra.
  • Who are the Sand Siblings?
    The Sand Siblings are the three children of the Fourth Kazekage — Temari, the eldest; Kankurō, the puppeteer; and Gaara, the youngest. The three fought together as a Sunagakure team through much of the series.
  • Did Temari beat Shikamaru?
    In their Chūnin Exam match, Temari carefully calculated the range of Shikamaru Nara's Shadow Imitation and stayed just outside it. Shikamaru, out of chakra, forfeited the match — so Temari was declared the winner of that bout.
  • How strong is Temari?
    Temari is a jōnin and a top-tier Wind Release user. During the Fourth Shinobi World War she was named the strongest wind user in her division, and managed to wound the Third Raikage, whose body was famed for being almost impossible to hurt.
  • Has Temari been a Narutodle answer?
    Temari is in the daily answer pool of 210 characters. The Previous Narutodle Appearances list on this page shows every date she was the Classic answer, each linking to a replayable archive puzzle.
  • How do you guess Temari in Narutodle?
    Temari's Nature Types column holds only Wind, a clean single-nature reading. Her Sunagakure village narrows it further, and she has no clan, no Kekkei Genkai, and an empty Attributes column.

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Avatar and biographical data sourced from Narutopedia under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence. Temari is the property of Masashi Kishimoto and Shueisha; Narutodle is an unofficial fan project. Facts are frozen at the end of Naruto: Shippūden. Last updated 2026-05-16.