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Kanji Detail for 杜 - "grove, forest, tree"
杜
- Meaning
杜 means "grove, forest, tree."
Wild pear - A deciduous tree of the rose family.
Grove - A forest, especially around a shrine.
Close - To shut; to block; to seal.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
woods; grove
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
stop, prevent; restrict; surname
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Du
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to prevent, to restrict, to stop; surname
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A tree name. In ancient times also called 甘棠. Leaves are large and oval. White flowers. Oval fruit less than an inch long, edible after frost. Red ones are 杜, sour and astringent. White ones are 棠, sweet. Both colloquially called 杜梨 or 棠梨. | A fragrant plant name. Such as 杜蘅, 杜若, both in "Songs of Chu." | To block. Such as 杜絕私弊 (to completely stop private abuses). | Anything fabricated without basis is called 杜. Such as 杜撰 (to fabricate). | Colloquially, local products are called 杜. Such as 杜布 (local cloth), 杜米 (local rice).
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