Kanji

Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names

JLPT level: N1

1982 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: birch, dark red

Kunyomi: かば かんば

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: tree

Examples

Onyomi Examples

カバ birch (esp. Japanese white birch)

カバザクラ ornamental variety of double weeping rosebud cherry, any cherry tree with birch-like bark, Japanese bird cherry (Prunus grayana)

Kunyomi Examples

かば birch (esp. Japanese white birch)

かばいろ reddish yellow

しらかば Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

かば birch (esp. Japanese white birch)

しらかば Japanese white birch (Betula platyphylla var. japonica)

鵜松明 うだいかんば monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana), Japanese birch