Kanji Detail for 檜 - "juniper, hinoki cypress"

檜

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
檜 means "juniper, hinoki cypress."
1. Juniper - An evergreen tree of the cypress family.
2. Hinoki cypress - A prized Japanese cypress tree.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

Japanese cypress

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

Chinese cypress, Chinese juniper

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

used in 秦檜|秦桧[Qin2 Hui4]; Taiwan pr. [Kuai4]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

Chinese cypress, Chinese juniper

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

Name of a tree. Also called 栝. Leaves are sharp and hard like cypress. Shape is somewhat round. Also called round cypress (圓柏). The trunk resembles pine without scales. Hence, Erya says: "檜 has cypress leaves and pine body." | Name of a state. Descendants of Zhurong. The Book of Odes has the "Airs of Gui." Zuozhuan writes it as 鄶.
Onyomi

kai(カイ)
Kunyomi

hi(ひ)

hinoki(ひのき)
Strokes

17 strokes
Radical

木 (ki・kihen)
Related Keywords
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