山桜

See also: 山櫻

Japanese
Kanji in this term
山 桜
やま
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Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 山 (やま) (yama, “mountain”) + 桜 (サクラ) (sakura, “cherry tree, Prunus serrulata”).

The sakura changes to zakura as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

Noun

山桜 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 山櫻, hiragana やまざくら, katakana ヤマザクラ, rōmaji yamazakura)

  1. (literally) a cherry tree blooming on a mountain; a wild cherry tree
    • c. 1226, Kin'yō Wakashū (book 9, poem 521; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 66)
      もろともに哀 (あは)れと思 (おも)へ山 (やま)桜 (ざくら)花 (はな)よりほかに知 (し)る人 (ひと)もなし
      morotomo ni aware to omoe yamazakura hana yori hoka ni shiru hito mo nashi
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. Prunus jamasakura or Cerasus jamasakura, a species of cherry tree

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 山 (やま)桜 (ざくら)戸 (ど) (yamazakura-do)
  • 山 (やま)桜 (ざくら)の歌 (うた) (Yamazakura no Uta)
  • 山 (やま)桜 (ざくら)花 (ばな) (yamazakura-bana)
  • 薄 (ウス)毛 (ゲ)山 (ヤマ)桜 (ザクラ) (usuge yamazakura)
  • 大 (オオ)山 (ヤマ)桜 (ザクラ) (ō-yamazakura)
  • 遠 (とお)山 (やま)桜 (ざくら) (tō-yamazakura)
  • 深 (ミ)山 (ヤマ)桜 (ザクラ) (mi-yamazakura)

Proper noun

山桜 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 山櫻, hiragana やまざくら, rōmaji Yamazakura)

  1. a place name

Compounds
  • 山桜桃 (ユスラウメ) (yusuraume)

References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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