桜木

Japanese
桜木 (sakuragi): a cherry tree.
Kanji in this term
桜 木
さくら
Grade: 5		 き > ぎ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 桜 (sakura, “cherry, cherry tree”) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”).[1][2][3] The ki changes to gi as an instance of rendaku (連濁). .

The term 桜 (sakura) on its own is ambiguous, and could be used to mean either the tree or the blossom. The addition of 木 (ki, “tree”) makes this distinction clear.

Pronunciation

Noun

桜木 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 櫻木, hiragana さくらぎ, rōmaji sakuragi)

  1. a sakura tree, the Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata, a species of subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, native to Japan, Korea, and China

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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