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Kanji Detail for 榛 - "hazel"

榛

  • Meaning

    榛 means "hazel." Also associated with thicket.

    1. Hazel - A deciduous shrub of the birch family.

    2. Thicket - A dense growth of trees and bushes.

  • Origin of 榛

    木, the tree, beside 秦, lending the reading shin: the hazel — thicket wood, whose nuts fed the oldest villages. A quiet Jinmeiyō name character (Haru).

    How to remember it: The modest thicket tree 木 with a harvest in its pockets — the hazel.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: hazel
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はしばみ)
    • Also carries these associations: thicket

    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 榛

    Surnames 榛(はしばみ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    hazelnut; filbert

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    hazelnut; thicket, underbrush

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) hazelnut tree (Corylus heterophylla)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    hazelnut; thicket, underbrush

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

    A tree name. Leaves have fine teeth. Fruit forms in husks, one fruit per husk. White round kernels called 榛子 (hazelnuts). | Blocked, overgrown. Such as 榛狉, 榛莽, all meaning this.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    han(ハン) ハン

    shin(シン) シン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    hari(はり) はり

    hashibami(はしばみ) はしばみ

  • Strokes

    tip

    14 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    hazel thicket nut shrub deciduous forest dense bushes woodland edible vegetation botanical brown

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