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桂 kanji
Japanese Judas-tree, cinnamon tree
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
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On readings
ケイ
Kun readings
かつら
Words with 桂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —桂knight
- —桂庵agency for employing servants and arranging marriages (Edo period); mediator; go-between; flattery; flatterer
- —桂冠crown of laurel
- —桂皮cinnamon; cassia (bark)
- —肉桂cinnamon; cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum sieboldii)
- —月桂bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree; moon; moonlight; katsura tree on the moon (in Chinese legends)
- —桂林katsura forest; beautiful forest
- —桂馬knight; keima; knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color
- —桂月moon
- —成桂promoted knight
- —桂花fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans); sweet olive
- —丹桂golden osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans)
- —月桂冠laurel wreath
- —月桂樹bay laurel (Laurus nobilis); bay tree; sweet bay; laurel tree
- —桂成りknight promotion
- —藪肉桂Japanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum)
- —桂皮酸cinnamic acid
- —肉桂色cinnamon (color)
- —月桂冠Gekkeikan (sake manufacturer)
- —桂冠詩人poet laureate