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Kanji Detail for 葉 - "leaf, foliage, growth"

  • Meaning

    葉 means "leaf, foliage, growth."

    1. Leaf - The foliage of a plant.

    2. Foliage - Leaves collectively.

    3. Era - A period of time.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    leaf; plane; lobe; needle; blade; spear; counter for flat things; fragment; piece

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    leaf, petal; page of book; period

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Ye

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    leaf, page; surname

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

    A part of a plant. Grows attached to leaf stems and branches. Usually mostly green in color. Flat and sheet-like. Shapes vary greatly. The veins connect from the leaf stalk throughout the whole. Like blood vessels in animals. One stalk with one leaf is called a simple leaf. One stalk with several leaves is called a compound leaf. Also flower petals are called 葉. Such as 千葉蓮 (thousand-petaled lotus), 千葉水仙 (thousand-petaled narcissus) and the like. | Pages of books are called 葉. One page is called 一葉. Interchangeable with 頁. Also things in sheets are often called 葉. Such as 葉金 (gold leaf) and the like. | Generation. Such as 中葉 (middle period), 末葉 (late period). Therefore successive generations are called 奕葉. | Descendants. Such as the old term for royalty 金枝玉葉 (golden branches and jade leaves). Referring to those who branch out from the same origin. | A Spring and Autumn Chu place name. Now Ye County in Henan.
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