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Kanji Detail for 栽 - "to plant, to cultivate"

栽

  • Meaning

    栽 means "to plant, to cultivate."

    1. Plant - To put seeds or seedlings in soil.

    2. Cultivate - To grow and tend plants.

  • Words using 栽

    • 栽培 さいばい Listen cultivation
    • 盆栽 ぼんさい Listen bonsai; miniature potted plant

  • Tattoo check: 栽

    • Verified meaning: to plant, to cultivate
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read さい)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 栽

    Surnames 栽(さい)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    plantation; planting

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    to cultivate, plant; to care for plants

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to plant; to grow; to insert; to erect (e.g. a bus stop sign); to impose sth on sb; to stumble; to fall down

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to cultivate, to plant, to tend

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To plant. Planting herbaceous plants is called 栽. From "Doctrine of the Mean": "Therefore, what is planted should be cultivated." Now nurturing talent is called 栽培.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    sai(サイ) サイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    to plant to cultivate grow agriculture bloom botanical farming flora foliage gardening harvest horticulture irrigation landscaping leaf nursery propagation pruning seedling

Sentences including 栽

  • Bonsai trees are elegant.

  • I grow rice.

  • She grew roses.

  • I grow rice.

  • My father grows rice.

  • He is cultivating roses.

  • They grow melons under glass.

  • He grows rice.

  • Tom grows strawberries in his garden.

  • I am good at raising roses.

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