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Kanji Detail for 樗 - "tree of heaven, worthless, chinaberry, staphylea"
樗
- Meaning
樗 means "tree of heaven, worthless, chinaberry, staphylea."
Tree of heaven - A deciduous tree of the Simaroubaceae family.
Worthless - A metaphor for something or someone useless.
Chinaberry - A deciduous tree of the Meliaceae family; an old name for sandalwood (Japanese usage).
Staphylea - A small deciduous tree of the Staphyleaceae family (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
Japanese bead tree
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
Ailanthus glandulosa or A. altissima, a kind of tree useless as timber
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
simaroubaceae
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
Ailanthus tree; a kind of small tree, useless for timber
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Name of a tree. Zhuangzi says: "I have a great tree which people call the ailanthus (樗). Its great trunk is so gnarled that it cannot be measured with a line; its small branches are so twisted that neither compass nor square can be applied to them." Today, people use 樗材 (ailanthus timber) as a self-deprecating term for being useless, based on this.
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