柳
willow
Readings
On'yomi (音読み)
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
Nanori (名乗り)
Stroke Order
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Information
Vocabulary
リュウ
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 川柳 | センリュウ | senryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem |
| 花柳 | カリュウ | red-light district |
| 花柳界 | カリュウカイ | red-light district; pleasure quarters; world of the geisha; demimonde |
| 花柳病 | カリュウビョウ | sexually transmitted disease; social disease |
| 蒲柳 | ホリュウ | purple willow; infirmity; delicate constitution |
Other
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 柳 | やなぎ | willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica) |
| 柳 | ヤナギ | willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica) |
| 青柳 | あおやぎ | green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) |
| 青柳 | あおやなぎ | green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) |
| 柳刃包丁 | やなぎばぼうちょう | kitchen knife for sashimi |
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