楓

楓 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓戈 (DHNI), four-corner 4791₀, composition ⿰木風)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 539, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15126
• Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1253, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6953

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *plum) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 風 (OC *plum, *plums)

楓

1. maple (tree)

• 槭 (qī)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. maple
2. Liquidambar formosana, Chinese sweetgum tree, Formosan sweetgum tree

• Go-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: かえで (kaede)、かいで (kaide)、かつら (katsura)、おかつら (okatsura)

 カエデ on Japanese Wikipedia

 Maple on Wikipedia

/kaperu te/ → /kaperude/ → /kaferude/ → /kafede/ → /kaede/

From Old Japanese かへるて, as this word first appears in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE.^[1][2][3]

Originally a compound of 蛙 (kaeru, “frog”) +‎ 手 (te, “hand”), with the te changing to de due to rendaku (連濁), and the ru dropping out over time. From the way the palmate leaves resemble a frog's foot.^[1][2]

• (Tokyo) かえで (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

楓(かえで) • (kaede) ^{←かへで (kafede)?}

1. the maple tree
2. a color scheme for 襲 (kasane, “layered kimono”, literally “layering”), where both the outer and inner layers are light green
3. a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”), featuring a maple-leaf design
4. (term of endearment) a child's hand (from the resemblance in shape between a hand with splayed fingers and a maple leaf)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カエデ.

楓(かえで) • (Kaede) 

1. a female given name

/kaede/ → /kaide/

Shift in pronunciation of kaede.^[1]

• IPA^(key):

楓(かいで) • (kaide) 

1. (uncommon, possibly obsolete) alternative for kaede above: the maple tree

 カツラ (植物) on Japanese Wikipedia

 Cercidiphyllum japonicum on Wikipedia

From Old Japanese. Less common spelling for 桂 (katsura).^[1]

• (Tokyo) かつら (Heiban – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

楓(かつら) • (katsura) 

1. 桂: the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum
2. 桂: (Chinese mythology) the kind of tree that grows on the moon

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カツラ.

The katsura reading is rare for this kanji. When referring to the katsura tree, the 桂 spelling is used more often to avoid confusion.

From Old Japanese. Alternative spelling for 男桂 (okatsura, “male katsura”), an archaic name for the katsura tree.^[1] Compare 女桂 (mekatsura, “female katsura: the cinnamon tree”). Appears with this reading in the 和名類聚抄 (Wamyō Ruijushō), a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters completed in 938.

• IPA^(key):

楓(おかつら) • (okatsura) ^{←をかつら (wokatura)?} (alternative reading hiragana おかづら, rōmaji okazura)

1. (obsolete) the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum

 フウ on Japanese Wikipedia

 Liquidambar formosana on Wikipedia

From Middle Chinese 楓 (MC pjuwng).

• (Tokyo) ふう (Atamadaka – )^[2]
• IPA^(key):

楓(ふう) or 楓(フウ) • (fū) 

1. the Formosan sweetgum tree, Liquidambar formosana
2. in certain kanji compounds, the maple tree

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as フウ.

From Middle Chinese 楓 (MC pjuwng).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

楓 (eumhun 단풍나무 풍 (danpungnamu pung))

1. hanja form^? of 풍 (“maple (tree)”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

楓: Hán Nôm readings: phong

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