櫻

Translingual

Han character

櫻 (radical 75 木+17, 21 strokes, cangjie input 木月金女 (DBCV), four-corner 4694₄, composition ⿰木嬰)

1. cherry, cherry blossom

References

• KangXi: page 562, character 18
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15888
• Dae Jaweon: page 950, character 40
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1321, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6AFB

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Chinese

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trad.		櫻
simp.		樱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ying¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (櫻, reconstructed)
Character (櫻), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 耕 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 烏莖切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔɣɛŋ/	/ʔæŋ/	/ʔɛŋ/	/ʔɯæŋ/	/ʔəɨjŋ/	/æŋ/	/ʔɐŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (櫻, reconstructed)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
櫻					15329					賏					耕					0					甖					/*qreːŋ/

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Japanese

shinjitai	桜
simplified	樱
traditional	櫻

Kanji

櫻

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 桜)

1. cherry tree

Readings

• Goon: よう (yō), (historical) やう (yau)
• Kan’on: おう (ō), (historical) あう (au)
• Kun: さくら (sakura)

Kanji in this term

櫻

さくら Hyōgaiji

kun'yomi

Noun

櫻 (kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai kanji 桜, hiragana さくら, romaji sakura)

1. 桜: a cherry tree; a cherry blossom; shill or someone on 出会い系 sites or similar who is paid to attract customers by pretending to be an attractive girl regularly using the site, always keeping enough people close but never too close (the person may not actually even be female)

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Korean

Hanja

櫻 (aeng) (hangeul 앵, revised aeng, McCune-Reischauer aeng, Yale ayng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

櫻 (anh)

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