榎

榎 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+10, 14 strokes, cangjie input 木一山水 (DMUE), four-corner 4194₇, composition ⿰木夏)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 542, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15219
• Dae Jaweon: page 930, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1263, character 2
• Unihan data for U+698E

榎

1. Manchurian catalpa (Catalpa bungei)

   Synonym: 楸 (qiū)

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka)
• Kun: え (e, 榎)、えのき (enoki, 榎)

 榎 on Japanese Wikipedia

 Celtis sinensis on Wikipedia

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.^[1]

There are various theories regarding the ultimate derivation of this e. Some of these include:

• From 枝 (e, eda, “branch”), from the many branches
• From 餌 (e, esa, “food for animals”), from the multitude of berries eaten by birds
• From 柄 (e, “handle”), from the way the wood was used for tool handles

• IPA^(key):

榎(え) • (e) 

1. Celtis sinensis, the Chinese hackberry tree

   Synonym: (see below) 榎 (enoki)

2. (rare) the Chinese hackberry fruit

   Synonym: 榎の実 (e no mi, enoki no mi)

This reading is generally not used in isolation in modern Japanese.

Compound of 榎 (e, “Chinese hackberry”) +‎ の (no, possessive particle) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”). Compare the similar formation of various other tree names, such as 楠 (kusu, “camphor; camphor tree”) and 楠 (kusunoki, “camphor tree”).

• (Tokyo) えのき (Heiban – )^[2][3]
• IPA^(key):

榎(えのき) or 榎(エノキ) • (enoki) 

1. Celtis sinensis, the Chinese hackberry tree

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

榎(えのき) • (Enoki) 

1. a surname

Etymology at Nihonjiten (in Japanese)

榎 • (ga) (hangeul 가, revised ga, McCune–Reischauer ka, Yale ka)

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