櫻

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See also: 樱 and 桜
櫻 U+6AFB, 櫻
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AFB
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Translingual

Traditional 櫻
Shinjitai 桜
Simplified 樱

Han character

櫻 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 木月金女 (DBCV), four-corner 46944, composition ⿰木嬰)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 562, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15888
  • Dae Jaweon: page 950, character 40
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1321, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+6AFB

Chinese

trad. 櫻
simp. 樱
2nd round simp. 桜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
瀴 *qreːŋs, *mqeːŋʔ, *qeːŋʔ
甖 *qreːŋ
鸚 *qreːŋ
櫻 *qreːŋ
嚶 *qreːŋ
罌 *qreːŋ
鸎 *qreːŋ
譻 *qreːŋ
賏 *qreŋs, *qeŋ
嬰 *qeŋ
瓔 *qeŋ
纓 *qeŋ
攖 *qeŋ
蘡 *qeŋ
癭 *qeŋʔ
廮 *qeŋʔ
巊 *qeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qreːŋ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 嬰 (OC *qeŋ).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • 1in - literary;
  • 1an - colloquial.
    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location 櫻
    Mandarin Beijing /iŋ⁵⁵/
    Harbin /iŋ⁴⁴/
    Tianjin /iŋ²¹/
    Jinan /iŋ²¹³/
    Qingdao /iŋ²¹³/
    Zhengzhou /iŋ²⁴/
    Xi'an /iŋ²¹/
    Xining /iə̃⁴⁴/
    Yinchuan /iŋ⁴⁴/
    Lanzhou /ĩn³¹/
    Ürümqi /iŋ⁴⁴/
    Wuhan /in⁵⁵/
    Chengdu /ŋən⁵⁵/
    /in⁵⁵/
    Guiyang /in⁵⁵/
    Kunming /ĩ⁴⁴/
    Nanjing /in³¹/
    Hefei /in²¹/
    Jin Taiyuan /iəŋ¹¹/
    Pingyao /iŋ¹³/
    Hohhot /ĩŋ³¹/
    Wu Shanghai /ã⁵³/
    /iŋ⁵³/
    Suzhou /ã⁵⁵/
    /iŋ⁵⁵/
    Hangzhou /ʔin³³/
    /ʔɑŋ³³/
    Wenzhou /j̠aŋ³³/
    Hui Shexian /iʌ̃³¹/
    Tunxi /iɛ¹¹/
    Xiang Changsha /in³³/
    Xiangtan /in³³/
    Gan Nanchang /in⁴²/
    Hakka Meixian /in⁴⁴/
    Taoyuan
    Cantonese Guangzhou /jeŋ⁵³/
    Nanning /jeŋ⁵⁵/
    Hong Kong /jiŋ⁵⁵/
    Min Xiamen (Hokkien) /iŋ⁵⁵/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /ɛiŋ⁴⁴/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /aiŋ⁵⁴/
    Shantou (Teochew) /eŋ³³/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /eŋ²³/
    Rime
    Character 櫻
    Reading # 1/1
    Initial (聲) 影 (34)
    Final (韻) 耕 (117)
    Tone (調) Level (Ø)
    Openness (開合) Open
    Division (等) II
    Fanqie 烏莖切
    Baxter 'eang
    Reconstructions
    Zhengzhang
    Shangfang         		/ʔˠɛŋ/
    Pan
    Wuyun         		/ʔᵚæŋ/
    Shao
    Rongfen         		/ʔɐŋ/
    Edwin
    Pulleyblank         		/ʔəɨjŋ/
    Li
    Rong         		/ʔɛŋ/
    Wang
    Li         		/æŋ/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/ʔæŋ/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		ēng
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		ang1
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character 櫻
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 15329
    Phonetic
    component         		賏
    Rime
    group         		耕
    Rime
    subdivision         		0
    Corresponding
    MC rime         		甖
    Old
    Chinese         		/*qreːŋ/

    Definitions

    櫻

    1. cherry (Classifier: 棵 m; 樖 c; 叢／丛 mn)

    Compounds

    References

    Japanese

    Shinjitai

    		桜

    Kyūjitai

    		櫻

    Kanji

    櫻

    (Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 桜)

    1. Kyūjitai form of 桜
    The letter 櫻 engraved in 1829.

    Readings

    • Go-on: よう (yō)←やう (yau, historical)
    • Kan-on: おう (ō)←あう (au, historical)
    • Kun: さくら (sakura, 櫻)

    Etymology 1

    Kanji in this term
    櫻
    さくら
    Jinmeiyō
    kun'yomi

    See 桜.

    Proper noun

    櫻(さくら) • (Sakura) 

    1. a female given name
    2. a surname

    Etymology 2

    For pronunciation and definitions of 櫻 – see the following entry.
    【桜】5
    fifth grade kanji
    Kanji reading:
    よう, おう, さくら
    (This term, 櫻, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

    Korean

    Hanja

    櫻 • (aeng) (hangeul 앵, revised aeng, McCune–Reischauer aeng, Yale ayng)

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    Okinawan

    Kanji in this term
    櫻
    さくら
    Jinmeiyō
    Alternative spelling
    桜

    Noun

    櫻(さくら) (sakura) 

    1. Kyūjitai form of 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree”)

    Old Japanese

    Etymology

    From 咲く (saku, “to bloom, burst open”) +‎ 等 (-ra, nominalizing and pluralizing suffix).

    Noun

    櫻 (sakura) (kana さくら)

    1. a cherry tree, especially the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Japanese: 桜 (sakura)

    Vietnamese

    Han character

    櫻: Hán Nôm readings: anh

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