桜木

Japanese
桜木 (sakuragi): a cherry tree.
Kanji in this term
桜 木
さくら
Grade: 5		 き > ぎ
Grade: 1
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
櫻木 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Compound of 桜 (sakura, “cherry, cherry tree”) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”).[1][2][3] The ki changes to gi as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

The term 桜 (sakura) on its own is ambiguous, and could be used to mean either the tree or the blossom. The addition of 木 (ki, “tree”) makes this distinction clear.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) さくら​ぎ [sàkúráꜜgì] (Nakadaka – [3])[2]
  • (Tokyo) さくらぎ [sàkúrágí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [sa̠kɯ̟ᵝɾa̠ɡʲi]

Noun

桜(さくら)木(ぎ) • (sakuragi) 

  1. a sakura tree, the Japanese flowering cherry, Prunus serrulata, a species of subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, native to Japan, Korea, and China

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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