桜木
Japanese
桜木 (sakuragi): a cherry tree.
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 桜 | 木 |
| さくら Grade: 5 | き > ぎ Grade: 1 |
| kun’yomi | |
Etymology
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
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) さくらぎ [sàkúráꜜgì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
- (Tokyo) さくらぎ [sàkúrágí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
- IPA(key): [sa̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ɡʲi]
Noun
桜木 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 櫻木, hiragana さくらぎ, rōmaji sakuragi)
- a sakura tree, the Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata, a species of subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, native to Japan, Korea, and China
References
- 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN