キ
Meanings
Noun
1. tree; shrub; bush
2. wood; timber
3. wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
usu. written as 柝
Pitch accent
キ
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Used in vocabulary (135 in total)
tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree); evergreen tree
Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir
roadside trees; row of trees
baseboard; skirting board
original stock
Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech
dogwood (Cornus controversa)
Pandanus boninensis (species of screw pine)
stock (from which a graft is taken); understock; root stock
tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum); grain borer; wood borer
early stachyurus (Stachyurus praecox); early spiketail
coffee tree
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
wooden board
stones and trees; sticks and stones; apathetic person; cold-hearted person; (arch.) brown coal
rubber tree
breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); breadfruit tree
India rubber tree (Ficus elastica)
unbarked lumber
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
tree climbing
old tree
workmen's chant while pulling a heavy load
wood lath
layering (a plant)
understory trees; underbrush; undergrowth
buttonwood tree (Platanus occidentalis); American sycamore; buttonball tree
leaf (of a tree); tree leaves; foliage
plants; vegetation
lumberyard
cherry tree
cotton (material)
sacred tree
sacred tree
sacred tree
wooden tag
standing tree; standing timber
garden tree
young tree; sapling
wooden hammer; wooden mallet
pine tree
wooden frame; wooden crate; wooden pallet
wood chips; wood offcuts; wood shavings; sawdust
palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
various kinds of small trees; assorted trees
live tree; green wood; unseasoned wood
bark (of tree)
piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood
crosspiece; bar; rail
Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki); Chinese persimmon; kaki
bark (of a tree)
wooden spatula
wood construction; woodworking; (arch.) gardener
grafting
rafter
leaf bud; bud of Japanese pepper tree (Xanthoxylum piperitum)
wooden form; wooden model; wooden pattern
money tree; gold mine; cash cow; jade plant (Crassula ovata); money plant
grain (of wood); unlacquered woodwork; plain wood; roughly cut wood for carving or lathing
if you want to hide a tree, the best place is a forest
dryad; tree spirit
(arch.) firewood usage fee at an inn (for cooking food brought by the guest); cheap lodging house
crossarm; bracket; blade; semaphore
tree structure
smell of new wood
wooden pillow
cutting; planting (a cutting)
flowering tree; Japanese red maple (Acer pycnanthum)
grapevine
subtree
wooden peg
canopy (trees)
to not see the forest for the trees; to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture
kanji "tree" radical at left (radical 75)
squirrel
potted tree
wooden stick; wooden pole
wooden stick; wooden pole
split firewood
fragment of wood
ancient tree; old tree
ancon; bracket; corbel piece
person who has lost something they used to rely on; (lit.) a monkey fallen from the tree
trees and grass; vegetation
Schoepfia jasminodora (tree of family Schoepfiaceae)
Naoki Prize (literary award)
Naoki Prize (literary award)
wooden block
wooden Buddha
pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them
kinoko; mountain-dwelling demon resembling a child
kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree
pruning shears
plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis)
wood sledge
Japanese cheesewood (Pittosporum tobira)
wood inlay
children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it
part of a wooden board closer to the bark; face side
forked viburnum (Viburnum furcatum); scarlet leaved viburnum
eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
hollow in a tree
crotch of a tree
hip rafter
gum arabic tree (Senegalia senegal)
coca tree
balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale); acajou
red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba); Indian silk-cotton tree
kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
tree network
tree search
spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
game tree (in combinatorial game theory)
Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii (variety of bigleaf hydrangea)
wooden blocks used as clappers
inner side of a wooden board; core side of sawn timber
Naoki Prize (literary award)
wooden vat; wooden tub
wooden side strips of a bow
Ohki Corporation
Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
Shirokiya (department store)
Japanese zelkova
fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season)
Examples (186 in total)
I ran into a tree.
Wood floats.
Looks like that tree is going to fall down!