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Kanji Detail for 樹 - "tree, to establish"

樹

  • Meaning

    樹 means "tree, to establish." Also associated with to plant.

    1. Tree - A standing plant; a woody perennial.

    2. Plant - To set in the ground; to establish.

    3. Establish - To found; to set up firmly.

  • Words using 樹

    • 樹立 じゅりつ Listen establishment; founding; setting (a record)
    • 樹木 じゅもく Listen tree; trees and shrubs
    • 樹脂 じゅし Listen resin; rosin
    • 植樹 しょくじゅ Listen tree-planting
    • 樹齢 じゅれい Listen age of a tree
    • 街路樹 がいろじゅ Listen roadside trees
    • 果樹 かじゅ Listen fruit tree
    • 広葉樹 こうようじゅ Listen broadleaf tree; broad-leaved tree

  • Four-character idioms with 樹

    • 沙羅双樹 さらそうじゅ Listen sal (tree) (Shorea robusta); saul; Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)

  • Tattoo check: 樹

    • Verified meaning: tree, to establish
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いつき, うえ, うえき, き)
    • Also carries these associations: to plant

    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 樹

    Given names 樹(いつき)Listen 樹(さつき)Listen 樹(しげる)Listen 樹(たかし)Listen 樹(たちき)Listen 樹(たつき)Listen

    Surnames 樹(うえ)Listen 樹(うえき)Listen 樹(き)Listen 樹(じゅ)Listen 樹(じゅり)Listen 樹(たつ)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    timber; trees; wood; establish; set up

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    tree; plant; set up, establish

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    tree; CL:棵[ke1]; to cultivate; to set up

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    tree; to plant; to set up, to establish

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

    The general name for the tree category. Those with branches that grow and stand upright. | A screen at the gate. The Analects says: "A ruler of a state sets up a screen at his gate" (邦君樹塞門). Used to separate inside and outside. | To plant. As in "it takes ten years to grow a tree, a hundred years to cultivate a person" (十年樹木、百年樹人). See Guanzi. The meaning of nurturing and establishing. | To establish. As in 建樹 (achievements), meaning to create and set up everything.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ju(ジュ) ジュ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ki(き) き

  • Strokes

    tip

    16 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    木 (ki・kihen)

  • Related Keywords

    tree plant establish stand wood timber bark botanical branch build flora foliage grove growth leaf lumber root trunk vegetation

Sentences including 樹

  • I wish i could show you the pretty ice on the trees.

  • This tree is the same age as that one.

  • Haruki doesn't have much money with him.

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