山桜

See also: 山櫻

Japanese
Kanji in this term
山 桜
やま
Grade: 1		 さくら > ざくら
Grade: 5
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
山櫻 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 山(やま) (yama, “mountain”) + 桜(サクラ) (sakura, “cherry tree, Prunus serrulata”).

The sakura changes to zakura as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) やまざ​くら [yàmázáꜜkùrà] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠ma̠za̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠]

Noun

山(やま)桜(ざくら) or 山桜(ヤマザクラ) • (yamazakura) 

  1. (literal) a cherry tree blooming on a mountain; a wild cherry tree
    • c. 1226, Kin'yō Wakashū (book 9, poem 521; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 66)
      もろともに哀(あは)れと思(おも)へ山(やま)桜(ざくら)花(はな)よりほかに知(し)る人(ひと)もなし
      morotomo ni aware to omoe yamazakura hana yori hoka ni shiru hito mo nashi
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. Prunus jamasakura or Cerasus jamasakura, a species of cherry tree

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • 山(やま)桜(ざくら)戸(ど) (yamazakura-do)
  • 山(やま)桜(ざくら)の歌(うた) (Yamazakura no Uta)
  • 山(やま)桜(ざくら)花(ばな) (yamazakura-bana)
  • 薄(ウス)毛(ゲ)山(ヤマ)桜(ザクラ) (usuge yamazakura)
  • 大(オオ)山(ヤマ)桜(ザクラ) (ō-yamazakura)
  • 遠(とお)山(やま)桜(ざくら) (tō-yamazakura)
  • 深(ミ)山(ヤマ)桜(ザクラ) (mi-yamazakura)

Proper noun

山(やま)桜(ざくら) • (Yamazakura) 

  1. a place name

See also
  • 山桜桃(ユスラウメ) (yusuraume), 山桜桃(ユスラ) (yusura)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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