Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1169 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 9

Meaning: willow

Kunyomi: やなぎ

Onyomi: リュウ

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tree

Examples

Onyomi Examples

リュウ Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

暗花明 リュウアンカメイ beautiful scenery of spring, red-light district

センリュウ senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem

カリュウ red-light district

Kunyomi Examples

やなぎ willow (any tree of genus Salix), weeping willow (Salix babylonica)

刃包丁 やなぎばぼうちょう kitchen knife for sashimi

あおやぎ green willow (i.e. one that has budded), meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)

化粧 けしょうやなぎ chosenia (Chosenia arbutifolia)