楓

楓 (radical 75, 木+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 木竹弓戈 (DHNI), four-corner 4791₀, composition ⿰木風)

• KangXi: page 539, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15126
• Dae Jaweon: page 926, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1253, character 8
• Unihan data for U+6953

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *plum) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 風 (OC *plum, *plums)

楓

1. maple (tree)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. maple
2. Liquidambar formosana, Chinese sweetgum tree, Formosan sweetgum tree

• Go-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan-on: ほう (hō)
• Kun: かえで (kaede); かいで (kaide); かつら (katsura); おかつら (okatsura)

楓 (kaede): maple leaves and seeds.

Originally a compound of 蛙 (kaeru, “frog”) +‎ 手 (te, “hand”), with the te changing to de due to rendaku (連濁), and the ru dropping out over time. From the way the palmate leaves resemble a frog's foot.[1][2]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かえで [kàédé] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠e̞de̞]

• 槭, 槭樹

楓 (hiragana かえで, rōmaji kaede, historical hiragana かへで)

1. the maple tree
2. a color scheme for 襲 (kasane, “layered kimono”, literally “layering”), where both the outer and inner layers are light green
3. a kind of 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”), featuring a maple-leaf design
4. (term of endearment) a child's hand (from the resemblance in shape between a hand with splayed fingers and a maple leaf)

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カエデ.

楓 (hiragana かえで, rōmaji Kaede)

1. A female given name.

Shift in pronunciation of kaede.[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠ide̞]

楓 (hiragana かいで, rōmaji kaide)

1. (uncommon) alternative for kaede above: the maple tree

楓 (katsura): katsura leaves and seeds.

From Old Japanese. Less common spelling for 桂 (katsura).[1]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) かつら [kàtsúrá] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡sɨᵝɾa̠]

楓 (hiragana かつら, rōmaji katsura)

1. 桂: the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum
2. 桂: (Chinese mythology) the kind of tree that grows on the moon

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as カツラ.

The katsura reading is rare for this kanji. When referring to the katsura tree, the 桂 spelling is used more often to avoid confusion.

From Old Japanese. Alternate spelling for 男桂 (okatsura, “male katsura”), an archaic name for the katsura tree.[1] Compare 女桂 (mekatsura, “female katsura: the cinnamon tree”). Appears with this reading in the 和名類聚抄 (Wamyō Ruijushō), a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters completed in 938.

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [o̞ka̠t͡sɨᵝɾa̠]

楓 (hiragana おかつら, rōmaji okatsura, historical hiragana をかつら) (alternative reading hiragana おかづら, romaji okazura)

1. (obsolete) the katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum

楓 (fū): sweetgum leaves and seeds.

From Middle Chinese 楓 (biung).

• On’yomi: Goon
  • (Tokyo) ふ​う [fúꜜù] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟ᵝː]

楓 (hiragana ふう, rōmaji fū)

1. フウ: the Formosan sweetgum tree, Liquidambar formosana
2. in certain kanji compounds, the maple tree

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts, as フウ.

楓 • (pung) (hangeul 풍, revised pung, McCune–Reischauer p'ung, Yale phung)

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楓 (phong)

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