Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

柾: straight grain, spindle tree

JLPT N19 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 正 is drawn in

9 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

まさmasa · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 柾目まさめstraight grain; quartersawn grain

まさきmasaki · kun'yomi

  • 柾まさきevergreen spindle (Euonymus japonicus)

Also read まさめ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
More in the 木 tree story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
木

Also built on tree (木)

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正

Also built on correct (正)

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
柾 straight grain · 木
vs征 subjugate · 彳
柾 has 木 where 征 has 彳.
In ChineseNo clear Chinese counterpart · jiù

Unihan gives no clear Chinese counterpart for this character.

Pinyin jiù most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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