桜

See also: 櫻 and 樱

桜 U+685C, 桜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-685C ← 桛 [U+685B] CJK Unified Ideographs 桝 → [U+685D]

Translingual

Traditional	櫻
Shinjitai	桜
Simplified	樱

Han character

桜 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木火女 (DFV), composition ⿰木𰋷)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 526, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14796
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 2, page 1207, character 5
• Unihan data for U+685C

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 櫻 (嬰 → 𰋷).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 桜 – see 櫻 (“cherry”). (This character is the second-round simplified form of 櫻).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Note

This simplification was intended to correspond with the Japanese shinjitai simplification below.