藤

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 滕 – a type of plant.

Han character

藤 (radical 140 艸+15, 21 strokes, cangjie input 廿月火水 (TBFE), four-corner 4423₂)

1. rattan, cane
2. wisteria (flora)
3. creeper plant

References

• KangXi: page 1065, character 46
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32340
• Dae Jaweon: page 1531, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3321, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85E4

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Cantonese

Hanzi

藤 (Yale tang4)

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Japanese

Wikispecies

Kanji

藤

Readings

• On: とう (tō), どう (dō)
• Kun: ふじ (fuji)

Compounds

• 藤夫 (ふじお, Fujio) (a male given name)
• 藤沢 (ふじさわ, Fujisawa) a surname; also locations in:

1. 1. Kanagawa. see 藤沢市
   2. Saitama. see 藤沢村
   3. Iwate. see 藤沢町

• 藤本 (ふじもと, Fujimoto) (a surname)
• 藤島 (ふじしま, Fujishima) (a surname)
• 藤井 (ふじい, Fujī) (a surname)
• 藤岡 (ふじおか, Fujioka) (a surname)
• 藤瀬 (ふじせ, Fujise) (a surname)
• 藤栄 (とうえい, Tōei) (a surname)
• 藤城 (ふじしろ, Fujishiro) (a surname)

Noun

藤 (hiragana ふじ, katakana フジ, romaji fuji)

1. wisteria, especially Wisteria floribunda

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Korean

Hanja

藤 (hangeul 등, revised deung, McCune-Reischauer tŭng, Yale tung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

藤 (pinyin téng (teng2), Wade-Giles t'eng²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

藤 (đằng)