Kanji
N1 9 strokes Grade 8 freq #1169

willow

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

tree ki

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

senryū; comic haiku
green willow (i.e. one that has budded)
red-light district
red-light district; pleasure quarters
manuka (Leptospermum scoparium); New Zealand tea tree
red-light district
riverside willow
willow-leaf arrowhead
Tamarix chinensis; Chinese tamarisk
Hanayagi school of Japanese dancing

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

willow (any tree of genus Salix)
kitchen knife for sashimi
Berchemia racemosa (species of flowering plant related to buckthorn)
white poplar (Populus alba); abele
goat willow (Salix caprea); pussy willow
without making waves; softly
Salix leucopithecia (species of willow)
water pepper (Persicaria hydropiper)
Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra var. italica)
low geta made of willow

Example sentences

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Oaks may fall when reeds stand the storm.