桜桃

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Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 桜桃 – see 櫻桃 (“cherry; reddish mouth of a beautiful girl”).
(This term is the second-round simplified form of 櫻桃).
Notes:

Japanese

Kanji in this term
桜 桃
おう
Grade: 5 		とう
Grade: S
kan'on
Alternative spelling
櫻桃 (kyūjitai)
 桜桃 on Japanese Wikipedia
桜桃 (ōtō, sakuranbō): Japanese cultivated cherries.

Etymology 1

/autau/ → /ɔːtɔː/ → /oːtoː/

From Middle Chinese 櫻桃 (MC 'eang daw, literally “cherry; cherry tree + peach; peach-shaped fruit”). The kan'on reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Pronunciation

Noun

桜(おう)桃(とう) • (ōtō) ←あうたう (autau)?

  1. A bird cherry, mazzard cherry, sweet cherry, or wild cherry tree, or gean (Prunus avium), of Europe and western Asia.
  2. fruit of a tree of species Prunus avium
  3. a Chinese sour cherry or Chinese cherry tree (Prunus pseudocerasus)
  4. fruit of a Chinese cherry tree
  5. a Nanking cherry, Korean cherry, or downy cherry tree (Prunus tomentosa)
  6. fruit of a Nanking cherry tree
  7. (figurative) a beautiful woman
  8. (figurative) the lips of a beautiful woman
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
桜 桃
さくら
Grade: 5 		-
Grade: S
kun'yomi irregular
Alternative spelling
櫻桃 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 桜桃 – see the following entry.
【桜さくらん坊ぼう】
(fruit) cherry (mostly used for Japanese cherries)
(This term, 桜桃, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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