Kanji
柳
N1
9 strokes
Grade 8
freq #1169
willow
On'yomi (音読み)
リュウ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
やなぎ
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
川柳
せんりゅう
senryū; comic haiku
青柳
あおやぎ
green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
花柳
かりゅう
red-light district
花柳界
かりゅうかい
red-light district; pleasure quarters
御柳梅
ギョリュウバイ
manuka (Leptospermum scoparium); New Zealand tea tree
花柳街
かりゅうがい
red-light district
川柳
かわやぎ
riverside willow
柳葉
やないば
willow-leaf arrowhead
檉柳
ぎょりゅう
Tamarix chinensis; Chinese tamarisk
花柳
はなやぎ
Hanayagi school of Japanese dancing
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
柳
やなぎ
willow (any tree of genus Salix)
柳刃包丁
やなぎばぼうちょう
kitchen knife for sashimi
熊柳
くまやなぎ
Berchemia racemosa (species of flowering plant related to buckthorn)
裏白箱柳
うらじろはこやなぎ
white poplar (Populus alba); abele
バッコ柳
バッコヤナギ
goat willow (Salix caprea); pussy willow
風に柳
かぜにやなぎ
without making waves; softly
振袖柳
ふりそでやなぎ
Salix leucopithecia (species of willow)
柳蓼
やなぎたで
water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)
西洋箱柳
せいようはこやなぎ
Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra var. italica)
柳下駄
やなぎげた
low geta made of willow
Example sentences
いつも柳(やなぎ)の下(した)に泥鰌(どじょう)は居(い)らぬ。
A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.
柳(やなぎ)の枝(えだ)に雪折(ゆきお)れなし。
Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.