楓

See also 枫

Translingual

Han character

楓 (radical 75 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓戈 (DHNI), four-corner 4791₀)

1. maple tree

References

• KangXi: page 539, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15126
• Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1253, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6953

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Cantonese

Hanzi

楓 (simplified 枫, Yale fung1)

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Japanese

Kanji

楓 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. maple
2. Liquidambar formosana, Chinese sweetgum tree, Formosan sweetgum tree

Readings

• Kan'on: ふう (fū)
• Kun: かえで (kaede), かいで (kaide), かつら (katsura), おかつら (okatsura)

Compounds

• 楓蚕 (ふうさん, fūsan): alternate for 天蚕蛾 (tegusuga, “Japanese silkworm moth, Antheraea yamamai”)
• 風樹 (ふうじゅ, fūju): the Formosan gum tree; the maple
• 楓科 (かえでか, kaedeka): the maple family, Aceraceae
• 楓紅葉 (かえでもみじ, kaede momiji): maple leaves that have turned red in autumn; a style of layered clothing with light yellow-green on the outside and yellow or orange-red on the inside
• 楓棚 (かえでだな, kaededana): a type of shelf in a tokonoma or study, with four legs and eight shelves
• 楓鳥, カエデチョウ (かえでちょう, kaedechō): the black-rumped waxbill, a type of estrildid finch common in Africa and introduced to Japan in the 1960s
• 楓鳥科, カエデチョウ科 (かえでちょうか, kaedechōka): genus Estrilda
• 楓糖 (ふうとう, fūtō): maple syrup
• 楓葉 (ふうよう, fūyō): maple leaves that have turned red in autumn

楓（カエデ）の葉っぱと実

Etymology 1

Originally a compound of 蛙 (kaeru, “frog”) +‎ 手 (te, “hand”), with the te changing to de due to rendaku (連濁), and the ru dropping out over time. From the way the palmate leaves resemble a frog's foot.

Alternative forms

• 槭樹

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: /kaede/

Noun

楓 (hiragana かえで, romaji kaede, historical hiragana かへで)

1. the maple tree

Derived terms

• 楓の木, 楓の樹 (かえでのき, kaede no ki): a maple tree
• 楓の間 (かえでのま, Kaede no Ma): the Maple Room, one of the shogun sitting rooms in Edo Castle

Etymology 2

Shift in pronunciation of kaede.

Noun

楓 (hiragana かいで, romaji kaide)

1. alternate reading for kaede: the maple tree

楓（カツラ）の葉っぱと実

Etymology 3

From Old Japanese. Less common spelling for 桂 (katsura).

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• IPA: /katsuɽa/

Noun

楓 (hiragana かつら, romaji katsura)

1. the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Etymology 4

From Old Japanese. Alternate spelling for 男桂 (okatsura, “male katsura”), an archaic name for the katsura tree. Compare 女桂 (mekatsura, “female katsura: the cinnamon tree”). Appears with this reading in the 和名類聚抄 (Wamyō Ruijushō), a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters completed in 938.

Noun

楓 (hiragana おかつら, romaji okatsura, historical hiragana をかつら) (alternative reading hiragana おかづら, romaji okazura)

1. the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum

楓（フウ）の葉っぱと実

Etymology 5

From Sinitic 楓.

Pronunciation

• Kan'on
• IPA: /ɸuː/

Noun

楓 (hiragana ふう, romaji fū)

1. フウ: the Formosan sweetgum tree, Liquidambar formosana
2. in certain kanji compounds, the maple tree

Idioms

• 楓呉江に落つ (ふうごこうにおつ, fū gokō ni otsu): "the fū leaves falling in Wujiang" → being disappointed in the reality of something after having lofty ideas about it; from a story in the New Book of Tang about an inspiring poem from an otherwise uninspiring poet
• 楓葉衰えて盧橘花開く (ふうようおとろえてろきつはなひらく, fūyō otoroete rokitsu hana hiraku): "the red sweetgum/maple leaves fade, and the kumquat flowers open" → a metaphor for the turning of the seasons

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Korean

Hanja

楓 (hangeul 풍, revised pung, McCune-Reischauer p'ung, Yale phung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

楓 (simplified 枫, pinyin fēng (feng1), Wade-Giles feng¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

楓 (phong)