漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
桜: cherry
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · ⺍ and 女 are drawn in
10 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
オウou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 桜桃おうとうcherry
- 桜花おうかcherry blossom
さくらsakura · kun'yomi · on its own
- 桜さくらcherry tree or blossom, decoy
- 桜ん坊さくらんぼcherry
- 山桜やまざくらwild cherry tree or blossoms
- 八重桜やえざくらdouble-flowered cherry tree
Also read ヨウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · 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 ChineseSimplified 樱 · traditional 櫻 · yīng
Three different forms: Japanese 桜, simplified 樱, traditional 櫻.
- Simplified
- 樱 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 櫻 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yīng 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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