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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: 木 卯

柳

Radical

Radical: 木

Meaning: tree

Reading: き

Frequency: 1,369

Alternative forms:

(alt radical position hen)

木

Examples

Onyomi Examples

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

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

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

花柳 (カリュウ) red-light district

Kunyomi Examples

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

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

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

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

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