Keyword
katsura tree
Info
FrequencyTop 2200-2300
Type
Jinmeiyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-1
Heisig210
Readings
けい
(36%)
Composed of
tree
square jewel
Used in vocabulary (37 in total)
katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum); Japanese Judas tree
knight; keima; knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color
bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree
knight
cinnamon; cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum sieboldii)
agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between; flattery; flatterer
bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; moon; moonlight; katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends)
katsura forest; beautiful forest
rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)
fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans); sweet olive
cinnamon; cassia (bark)
crown of laurel
Keien period (between the end of the Russo-Japanese War and the Taisho Political Crisis, approx. 1905-1912)
promoted knight
rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)
rotary cutting; thinly slicing into a long strip (e.g. daikon, carrot, wood for plywood, etc.)
golden osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans)
Katsuragawa Station (Hokkaido)
Cassia wine; osmanthus wine
Japanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum)
mandarin fish (Siniperca chuatsi); Chinese perch
Cercidiphyllaceae (monotypic plant family containing the katsura trees)
man in the moon
knight promotion
cinnamon powder; powdered cinnamon bark
ogeima; large knight's move
keishibukuryōgan; traditional Chinese medicine prescribed for gynecological disorders
very large knight's move
very large knight's move
keima; knight's move; kogeima; small knight's move
true cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum); Ceylon cinnamon tree
Cercidiphyllum magnificum (species of katsura)