木犀花
Japanese
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Kanji in this term | ||
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木 | 犀 | 花 |
もく Grade: 1 |
せい Jinmeiyō |
か Grade: 1 |
on'yomi |
Etymology
木犀 (“fragrant olive”) + 花 (“flower”)
Noun
- (botany) The flowers of the fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans).
Coordinate terms
- 金木犀 (kinmokusei): yellow-blooming variety of the fragrant olive
- 銀木犀 (ginmokusei): white-blooming variety of the fragrant olive
- 木犀 (mokusei) the fragrant olive in general
- 桂花 (keika)
See also
木犀花 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ja
Osmanthus fragrans on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 木 read as もく
- Japanese terms spelled with 犀 read as せい
- Japanese terms spelled with 花 read as か
- Japanese terms read with on'yomi
- Japanese terms prefixed with 木犀
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with jinmeiyō kanji
- Japanese terms with 3 kanji
- ja:Botany