Kanji Detail for 棠 - "wild pear, flowering crabapple"

棠

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
棠 means "wild pear, flowering crabapple."
1. Wild pear - A deciduous tree of the Rosaceae family.
2. Flowering crabapple - A small deciduous tree of the Rosaceae family.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

wild pear tree; crabapple tree

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

crab apple tree; wild plums

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

cherry-apple

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

crabapple tree; wild plum

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

A tree name. There are red and white varieties. The red has tough wood grain, anciently used for bow handles. The white has edible fruit. From "Book of Odes": "Lush sweet pear tree," telling of Duke Shao hearing lawsuits beneath it, and later people preserving it as a memorial. Hence the benevolent legacy of local officials is called 甘棠 (sweet pear) or 召棠 (Duke Shao's pear), based on this. See "杜" for comparison. | 沙棠: A tree name. Its wood can be made into boats.
Onyomi

doh(どう)

toh(とう)
Kunyomi

yamanashi(やまなし)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords
wild pear deciduous tree rosaceae family flowering crabapple small