櫻

See also: 樱 and 桜

櫻 U+6AFB, 櫻 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6AFB ← 櫺 [U+6AFA] CJK Unified Ideographs 櫼 → [U+6AFC]

Translingual

Traditional	櫻
Shinjitai	桜
Simplified	樱

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad.		櫻
simp.		樱
2nd round simp.		桜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (賏) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
瀴	*qreːŋs, *mqeːŋʔ, *qeːŋʔ
甖	*qreːŋ
鸚	*qreːŋ
櫻	*qreːŋ
嚶	*qreːŋ
罌	*qreːŋ
鸎	*qreːŋ
譻	*qreːŋ
賏	*qreŋs, *qeŋ
嬰	*qeŋ
瓔	*qeŋ
纓	*qeŋ
攖	*qeŋ
蘡	*qeŋ
癭	*qeŋʔ
廮	*qeŋʔ
巊	*qeːŋʔ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qreːŋ) : semantic 木 + phonetic 嬰 (OC *qeŋ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): yīng (ying¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄥ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): ngen¹ / yin¹

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): jing¹

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): yen¹

• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): yîn

  (Meixian, Guangdong): yin¹

• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): eng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): êng¹

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹in; ¹an

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ying
    • Wade–Giles: ying¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ing
    • Palladius: ин (in)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /iŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: ngen¹ / yin¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: ngen / in
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋən⁵⁵/, /in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jing¹
    • Yale: yīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ying¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪŋ⁵⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: yen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jen³³/
• Hakka
  • (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: in´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /in²⁴/
  • (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: (r)in´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: yin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /(j)in²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: yin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /in⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: eng
    • Tâi-lô: ing
    • Phofsit Daibuun: efng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /iɪŋ³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /iɪŋ⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: êng¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: eng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /eŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ¹in; ¹an
    • MiniDict: in^平; an^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹in; ¹an
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /in⁵³/, /ã⁵³/

Note:

• ¹in - literary;
• ¹an - colloquial.

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 櫻
Mandarin	Beijing	/iŋ⁵⁵/
	Harbin	/iŋ⁴⁴/
	Tianjin	/iŋ²¹/
	Jinan	/iŋ²¹³/
	Qingdao	/iŋ²¹³/
	Zhengzhou	/iŋ²⁴/
	Xi'an	/iŋ²¹/
	Xining	/iə̃⁴⁴/
	Yinchuan	/iŋ⁴⁴/
	Lanzhou	/ĩn³¹/
	Ürümqi	/iŋ⁴⁴/
	Wuhan	/in⁵⁵/
	Chengdu	/ŋən⁵⁵/ /in⁵⁵/
	Guiyang	/in⁵⁵/
	Kunming	/ĩ⁴⁴/
	Nanjing	/in³¹/
	Hefei	/in²¹/
Jin	Taiyuan	/iəŋ¹¹/
	Pingyao	/iŋ¹³/
	Hohhot	/ĩŋ³¹/
Wu	Shanghai	/ã⁵³/ /iŋ⁵³/
	Suzhou	/ã⁵⁵/ /iŋ⁵⁵/
	Hangzhou	/ʔin³³/ /ʔɑŋ³³/
	Wenzhou	/j̠aŋ³³/
Hui	Shexian	/iʌ̃³¹/
	Tunxi	/iɛ¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/in³³/
	Xiangtan	/in³³/
Gan	Nanchang	/in⁴²/
Hakka	Meixian	/in⁴⁴/
	Taoyuan
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/jeŋ⁵³/
	Nanning	/jeŋ⁵⁵/
	Hong Kong	/jiŋ⁵⁵/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/iŋ⁵⁵/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/ɛiŋ⁴⁴/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/aiŋ⁵⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/eŋ³³/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/eŋ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'eang

Rime
Character	櫻
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	耕 (117)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	烏莖切
Baxter	'eang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠɛŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔᵚæŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɐŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔəɨjŋ/
Li Rong	/ʔɛŋ/
Wang Li	/æŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʔæŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ang1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qreːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	櫻
Reading #	1/1
No.	15329
Phonetic component	賏
Rime group	耕
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	甖
Old Chinese	/*qreːŋ/

Definitions

櫻

1. cherry (Classifier: 棵 m; 樖 c; 叢／丛 mn)

Compounds

• 山櫻桃／山樱桃
• 打櫻桃／打樱桃
• 櫻桃／樱桃 (yīngtáo)
• 櫻桃宴／樱桃宴
• 櫻桃小口／樱桃小口
• 櫻脣／樱唇
• 櫻花／樱花 (yīnghuā)
• 櫻草／樱草
• 櫻貝／樱贝
• 野櫻皮／野樱皮
• 金櫻子／金樱子 (jīngyīngzǐ)

 

References

• “櫻”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Shinjitai	桜
Kyūjitai	櫻

Kanji

櫻

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 桜)

1. Kyūjitai form of 桜

The letter 櫻 engraved in 1829.

Readings

• Go-on: よう (yō)^{←やう (yau, historical)}
• Kan-on: おう (ō)^{←あう (au, historical)}
• Kun: さくら (sakura, 櫻)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
櫻
さくら Jinmeiyō
kun’yomi

See 桜.

Proper noun

櫻(さくら) • (Sakura) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 櫻 – see the following entry.

【桜】5 [kanji] Grade 5 kanji Kanji reading: よう, おう, さくら

(This term, 櫻, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Okinawan

Kanji in this term
櫻
さくら Jinmeiyō

Alternative spelling
桜

Noun

櫻(さくら) (sakura) 

1. Kyūjitai form of 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree”)

Old Japanese

Etymology

From 咲く (saku, “to bloom, burst open”) +‎ 等 (-ra, nominalizing and pluralizing suffix).

Noun

櫻 (sakura) (kana さくら)

1. a cherry tree, especially the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata
   • 720, Nihon Shoki, (poem 67):

     波那具波辭佐區羅能梅涅虛等梅涅麼波椰區波梅涅孺和我梅豆留古羅

     pana-gupasi sakura no₂ me₂de ko₂to₂ me₂deba payaku pa me₂dezu waga me₂duru ko₁ra

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• 櫻麻の (sakurawo no₂, pillow word)
• 櫻田 (Sakurada)
• 櫻花 (sakurabana, “cherry blossom”)
• 櫻井 (Sakurawi)
• 山櫻 (yamazakura, “mountain cherry”)

 

Descendants

• Japanese: 桜 (sakura)

Vietnamese

Han character

櫻: Hán Nôm readings: anh

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