Kanji1 / 12
葉 kanji
leaf, plane, lobe, needle, blade, spear, counter for flat things, fragment, piece
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ヨウ
Kun readings
は
Words with 葉
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —枝葉末節unimportant details; inessentials
- —万葉仮名man'yōgana; early Japanese syllabary of Chinese characters used phonetically
- —照葉樹林evergreen (glossy-leaved) forest
- —羽状複葉pinnate compound leaf
- —飛花落葉scattering of the blossoms and falling of the leaves; the impermanence of worldly things
- —緑葉甘藍kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
- —落葉高木deciduous tall tree
- —落葉喬木deciduous tall tree
- —金枝玉葉member of the Imperial family; royalty; beautiful clouds
- —貝多羅葉pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
- —針葉樹林conifer forest; coniferous forest; needle-leaved forest
- —葉食動物folivore
- —茎葉植物cormophyte
- —葉状植物thallophyte
- —内中胚葉endomesoderm
- —硬葉樹林sclerophyll forest; sclerophyllous forest; hardwood forest
- —落葉低木deciduous shrub
- —広葉樹林broad-leaved forest; broadleaf forest
- —葉茎菜類leafy vegetables; stem vegetables
- —小一葉蘭Ephippianthus schmidtii (species of orchid)