桜木
Japanese edit
Kanji in this term | |
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桜 | 木 |
さくら Grade: 5 |
き > ぎ Grade: 1 |
kun’yomi |
Alternative spelling |
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櫻木 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology edit
Compound of 桜 (sakura, “cherry, cherry tree”) + 木 (ki, “tree”).[1][2][3] The ki changes to gi as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..
The term 桜 (sakura) on its own is ambiguous, and could be used to mean either the tree or the blossom. The addition of 木 (ki, “tree”) makes this distinction clear.
Pronunciation edit
- (Tokyo) さくらぎ [sàkúráꜜgì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
- (Tokyo) さくらぎ [sàkúrágí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- IPA(key): [sa̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ɡʲi]
Noun edit
- a sakura tree, the Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata, a species of subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, native to Japan, Korea, and China
References edit
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN