漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
桑: mulberry
JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
又 and 木 carry the meaning
10 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Today
Oracle bone: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 桑田そうでんmulberry plantation
- 扶桑ふそうdivine tree or island east of China; Fusang
くわkuwa · kun'yomi · on its own
- 桑くわmulberry (tree)
- 桑原くわばらmulberry field
- 桑畑くわばたけmulberry field; mulberry plantation
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
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.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · sāng
Same form: 桑 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 桑 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 桑 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin sāng 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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