Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

樹: timber, trees

Also: wood, establish, set up

JLPT N116 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met

木 carries the meaning · 壴 and 寸 are drawn in

16 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

ジュju · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 樹木じゅもくtrees and shrubs, arbor
  • 樹脂じゅしresin
  • 樹氷じゅひょうfrost covered trees
  • 樹海じゅかいsea of trees
  • 樹皮じゅひbark
  • 植樹しょくじゅtree-planting
  • 果樹園かじゅえんorchard
  • 街路樹がいろじゅroadside trees
  • 樹立するじゅりつするestablish, found, set up

Also read き, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 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)

All 124
壴

Also built on 壴

寸

Also built on inch (寸)

All 24

Also read ジュ

12 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
樹 timber · 木 + 壴
vs闘 fight · 門 + 豆
樹 has 木 + 壴 where 闘 has 門 + 豆.
In ChineseSimplified 树 · traditional, as in Japanese · shù

Japan keeps the traditional form 樹; mainland China simplifies it to 树.

Simplified
树 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
樹 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin shù 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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