桜
cherry
10 strokes. Taught in grade 5. Newspaper frequency rank 1237.
Readings
- さくら (kun reading): 桜 (さくら) cherry tree; 夜桜 (よざくら) cherry blossoms at night
- オウ (on reading): 桜花 (おうか) cherry blossom; 桜美林大学 (おうびりんだいがく) J. F. Oberlin University
- ヨウ (on reading)
Components
Words using 桜
- 桜 (さくら) cherry tree
- 夜桜 (よざくら) cherry blossoms at night
- 桜餅 (さくらもち) rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
- 葉桜 (はざくら) cherry tree in leaf
- 桜並木 (さくらなみき) row of cherry trees (lining a street)
- 桜花 (おうか) cherry blossom
- 桜美林大学 (おうびりんだいがく) J. F. Oberlin University
- 桜花爛漫 (おうからんまん) riot of cherry blossoms
- 桜桃 (おうとう) cherry (tree; esp. sweet cherry or Nanking cherry)
- 観桜 (かんおう) cherry blossom viewing
73 words in all.