Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

椰: coconut tree

JLPT N113 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 耶 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ヤya · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 椰子やしpalm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
  • 椰胡やこyehu (bowed Chinese instrument with a…
  • 花椰菜はなやさいcauliflower

Also read やし, with no example words in our sources. 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
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yē

Same form: 椰 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
椰 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
椰 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin yē 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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