木 tree, wood

き ki · as a side part きへん kihen

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Origin · sourced

Pictogram象形

A tree: branches on top, roots on the bottom (more visible in earlier forms).

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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. It is the root of all things natural and the source of our wooden world.”

Where it sits in a kanji

Relates to trees, wood, forests, or objects and tools traditionally made from wood.

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What it grows into

Built from 木, with sourced origins

森forestシン · もり
木 × 3
Triplication of 木 (“tree”), to suggest a large number (compare 三) of trees such as one would find in a forest.
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
林groveリン · はやし
木 + 木
Duplication of 木 (“tree”) to give the idea of multiple trees (compare 森), thus a forest.
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本bookホン · もと
木 becomes 本
A tree (木) with its bottom highlighted with an extra stroke, accentuating the roots; contrast 末, 朱.
Ideogram · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Every kanji with 木 as its radical

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