cherry blossom

cherry blossom

English

cherry blossoms

Noun

cherry blossom (countable and uncountable, plural cherry blossoms)

1. The blossom or flower of the cherry tree, particularly the Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata).

   Synonyms: sakura, 🌸

2. (heraldry) A stylized depiction of the blossom of the cherry tree, as used in Japanese mon.
   • 1976, W. M. Hawley & Kei Kaneda Chappelear, Mon: The Japanese Family Crest, page 27:

     The cherry blossom was in use in Heian times...For obvious reasons it become the mon of the Sakurai family.

Related terms

• apple blossom
• apricot blossom
• orange blossom
• peach blossom
• plum blossom

 

Translations

blossom of the cherry tree

Arabic: زَهْرَة كَرَز‎ f (zahra(t) karaz) Burmese: ချယ်ရီပန်း (hkyairipan:) Chinese: Cantonese: 櫻花 (jing1 faa1) Mandarin: 櫻花／樱花 (zh) (yīnghuā) Dutch: kersenbloesem m Finnish: kirsikankukinta, kirsikankukka (fi) French: fleur de cerisier f German: Kirschblüte (de) f Greek: άνθος κερασιάς n (ánthos kerasiás) Hindi: चेरी ब्लॉसम (cerī blŏsam) Hungarian: cseresznyevirág (hu), cseresznyevirágzás (hu) Icelandic: kirsuberjablóm n Italian: fiore di ciliegio m Japanese: 桜 (ja) (さくら, sakura), (kyūjitai, old spelling) 櫻 (ja) (さくら, sakura), (katakana alternative spelling) サクラ (ja) (sakura), 桜花 (ja) (おうか, ōka; さくらばな, sakurabana), (kyūjitai, old spelling) 櫻花 (ja) (おうか, ōka; さくらばな, sakurabana) Kapampangan: Sarésang mánsampága, Sarésang mámúlaklak, Khmer: លំអងសេរីហ្ស (lum’ɑɑng seerəyzaa) Korean: 벚꽃 (ko) (beotkkot) Persian: شکوفهٔ گیلاس‎ (šokufe-ye gilâs) Polish: kwiat wiśni f Portuguese: flor de cerejeira f, flor da cerejeira f, sakura f Romanian: floare de cireș f Russian: вишнёвый цвет m (višnjóvyj cvet), цвете́ние ви́шни n (cveténije víšni), (sakura) цвете́ние са́куры n (cveténije sákury), са́кура (ru) f (sákura) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: трешњин цвије̑т m Roman: trešnjin cvijȇt m Spanish: sakura f, flor de cerezo f, flor del cerezo f Swedish: körsbärsblomma (sv) c, körsbärsblom (sv) Tagalog: seresang namumalaklak, sakura Thai: ซากุระ Vietnamese: hoa anh đào

heraldic charge

Japanese: 桜 (ja) (さくら, sakura), (kyūjitai, old spelling) 櫻 (ja) (さくら, sakura), (katakana alternative spelling) サクラ (ja) (sakura) Swedish: körsbärsblom (sv) c

Further reading

• cherry blossom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia