柳

柳 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+5, 9 strokes, cangjie input 木竹竹中 (DHHL), four-corner 4792₀, composition ⿰木卯)

• 𩋶, 𦵂

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 521, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14662
• Dae Jaweon: page 909, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1187, character 2
• Unihan data for U+67F3

• Unihan data for U+F9C9

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 柳樹 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 柳 (Cantonese)
• 柳 (Classical)
• 柳 (Wu)
• Willow (English)

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 柳姓 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 柳氏 (Cantonese)
• Liú (bo̍k-pêng) (Southern Min)
• Liǔ (English)

Historical forms of the character 柳
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m·ruʔ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 卯 (OC *mruːʔ) in oracle bone script and bronze inscriptions.

Later 桺 (semantic 木 + phonetic 丣 (OC *luʔ)) in small seal script.

The glyph finally turned back to 木 (mù) + 卯 (mǎo) in the current form.

Smith (2011) reconstructs *ruʔ, with volitional or agentic prefix *m- (see Sagart, 1999) and root verb 流 (OC r(j)u) "to flow", resulting in *m-ruu "(cause to flow >) pour out, empty". If unprefixed, 柳 means "the flowing one"; if prefixed, "the pouring one". Recall English weeping willow.

柳

1. willow, a member of the genus Salix
2. (in compounds) fillet

   雞柳／鸡柳  ―  jīliǔ  ―  chicken fillet

   牛柳  ―  niúliǔ  ―  beef tenderloin

   豬柳／猪柳  ―  zhūliǔ  ―  pork fillet

   蟹柳  ―  xièliǔ  ―  crab stick

3. a surname

   柳宗元  ―  Liǔ Zōngyuán  ―  Liu Zongyuan (Tang dynasty writer)

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A01909
• “柳”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū, Jōyō)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: やなぎ (yanagi, 柳, Jōyō)、やぎ (yagi, 柳)
• Nanori: なぎ (nagi)、や (ya)、やい (yai)、やな (yana)、やない (yanai)

• 川柳(せんりゅう) (senryū)
• 柳葉魚(シシャモ) (shishamo)

/riu/ → /rjuː/

Ultimately from Middle Chinese 柳 (MC ljuwX). While the affix is cited in the 700s with this reading, the proper noun is first cited to a text from the mid-1400s.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

柳(りゅう) • (ryū) ^{←りう (riu)?}

1. willow, especially weeping willow
2. thin as a willow leaf

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

柳宿

Wikipedia ^ja

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Willow (Chinese constellation)

Wikipedia

柳(りゅう) • (Ryū) ^{←りう (Riu)?}

1. (Chinese astronomy) the Willow as one of the twenty-eight mansions

   Synonym: 柳宿 (Ryūshuku)

2. a female given name
3. a surname

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

柳

Wikisource

柳 (eumhun 버들 류 (beodeul ryu), word-initial (South Korea) 버들 유 (beodeul yu))

1. hanja form^? of 류/유 (“willow tree”)

柳: Hán Nôm readings: liễu, lẫu, lãu

1. Chữ Hán form of Liễu (“a surname from Chinese.”).

柳

1. Sawndip form of gyaeuj (“head; headhair”)