Kanji1 / 9
柳 kanji
willow
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
リュウ
Kun readings
やなぎ
Variant forms
桺Words with 柳
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —川柳Popularsenryū; comic haiku; humorous seventeen-mora poem
- —花柳Popularred-light district
- —柳Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
- —蒲柳purple willow; infirmity; delicate constitution
- —柳眉beautiful eyebrows; lovely eyebrows
- —柳条willow twig
- —花柳界red-light district; pleasure quarters; world of the geisha; demimonde
- —花柳病sexually transmitted disease; social disease
- —柳江人Liujiang man; one of the earliest modern humans found in East Asia
- —花柳街red-light district
- —蒲柳の質delicate health; fragile health
- —花紅柳緑red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature
- —桃紅柳緑beautiful scenery of spring
- —柳暗花明beautiful scenery of spring; red-light district
- —柳巷花街red-light district; pleasure quarter
- —柳緑花紅red blossoms and green willows; beautiful scenery of spring; natural beauty; beauty of nature
- —常磐御柳beefwood (Casuarina equisetifolia)
- —柳橋新誌Ryūkyō Shinshi (book by Narushima Ryūhoku concerning the Yanigabashi pleasure quarters)
- —柳条湖事件Liutiaohu Incident (1931 railway bombing triggering the Manchurian Incident)
- —楊柳willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica)