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Kanji Detail for 梓 - "catalpa, printing, publish"
梓
- Meaning
梓 means "catalpa, printing, publish."
Catalpa - A deciduous tree of the catalpa family.
Birch - A deciduous tree.
Printing block - Wood used for woodblock printing; to print.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
catalpa tree; woodblock printing
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
Chinese catalpa, Catalpa ovata
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Chinese catalpa (Catalpa ovata), a tree that serves as a symbol of one's hometown and whose wood is used to make various items; (bound form) printing blocks
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
Catalpa ovata
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A tree name. Over one zhang tall, leaves like paulownia but smaller. Pale yellow flowers. The wood is widely used. | Working with wooden implements is called 梓. From "Book of Documents, Zi Cai commentary." Colloquially, carving text onto printing blocks is also called 梓. | One's birthplace is called 桑梓. Such as 梓鄉, 梓里. From "Book of Odes." Because mulberry and catalpa were trees planted by one's father. | Comparing father and son is called 橋梓. From "Great Commentary to the Book of Documents." Because the qiao tree is tall and looked up to, while the catalpa is low and bows down.
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