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桂 (Kangxi radical 75,木+6, 10 strokes,cangjie input木土土 (DGG),four-corner4491₄,composition⿰木圭)

• 𠺺,溎,𥉯,蓕,𭵣

• Kangxi Dictionary:page 525, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14755
• Dae Jaweon: page 913, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1193, character 5
• Unihan data for U+6842

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• 桂(Cantonese)
• 桂(Chinese)

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声,OC*kʷeːs): semantic 木 + phonetic 圭(OC*kʷeː).

桂

1. osmanthus;sweet osmanthus
2. cassia;Chinese cinnamon

   • 蒙舍蠻以椒、薑、桂和烹而飲之。[Classical Chinese,trad.]
     蒙舍蛮以椒、姜、桂和烹而饮之。[Classical Chinese,simp.]

     From:Tang Dynasty,Fan Chuo,Manshu,chapter 7, part 7

     Méngshè Mán yǐ jiāo, jiāng,guì hé pēng ér yǐn zhī.[Pinyin]

     The Mengshe Barbarians use pepper, ginger, andcinnamon to boil as a drink.

3. truecinnamon;Saigon cinnamon;Indonesian cinnamon
4. laurel;bay laurel
5. of or relating toGuilin,Guangxi, or the region of theGui River
6. asurname

• “桂”, in漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1],香港中文大學 (theChinese University of Hong Kong),2014–
• 李如龙[Li, Ru-long];刘福铸[Liu, Fu-zhu];吴华英[Wu, Hua-ying];黄国城[Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “桂”, in莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min),Xiamen University Press,→ISBN, page157.

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. thekatsura, the Japanese Judas tree
2. thecinnamon orcassia tree
3. the sweetosmanthus tree

• Go-on:かい(kai)^{←くわい(kwai,historical)}
• Kan-on:けい(kei)^{←けい(kei,historical)←くゑい(kwei,ancient)}
• Kun:かつら(katsura,桂)、めかつら(mekatsura,桂)
• Nanori:か(ka)、かつ(katsu)、よし(yoshi)

JapaneseWikipedia has an article on:

桂

Wikipedia^ja

FromOld Japanese. Originally a compound of香(ka,“fragrance, good smell”) +‎出(zu,“to come out, to put something out”) +ら(ra,nominalizing suffix): "that which puts out a good smell", from the way the wood smells good.

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桂(かつら)or桂(カツラ)• (katsura) 

1. katsura tree,Cercidiphyllum japonicum, also called the Japanese Judas tree
2. (Chinesemythology) a tree on themoon, from a Chinese legend that the phases of the moon were caused byLauraceae trees budding, blossoming, then dropping their flowers and leaves again as if in accelerated seasons

   Synonym:月桂(gekkei)

3. juliennedrawdaikon, used as agarnish forsashimi
4. synonym of肉桂(nikkei,“cinnamon or cassia tree”)
5. (by extension)synonym of桂皮(keihi,“cinnamon or cassia bark”)

• 桂男(かつらおとこ)(katsura otoko): the katsura man, a character in the Chinese legend who lives on the moon
• カツラ科(カ),桂(かつら)科(か)(katsuraka): theCercidiphyllaceaefamily, containing only theCercidiphyllumgenus, containing only the twospeciesCercidiphyllum japonicum andCercidiphyllum magnificum, both commonly called桂(katsura)
• 広葉桂(ヒロハカツラ)(hiroha katsura,“broadleaf katsura,Cercidiphyllum magnificum”)

桂(かつら)• (Katsura) 

1. a unisexgiven name
2. asurname
3. aneighbourhood on the westbank of the Katsura River inKyoto

FromOld Japanese. Alternative spelling for女桂(mekatsura,“female katsura”), an archaic name for thecinnamon tree. Compare男桂(okatsura,“male katsura: the katsura tree”), also spelled楓. Appears with this reading in the和名類聚抄(Wamyō Ruijushō), a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters completed in 938.

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桂(めかつら)• (mekatsura) 

1. alternative spelling of女桂(mekatsura,“cinnamon tree, or other closely related trees ingenusCinnamomum”)

   Synonym:肉桂(nikkei)

FromMiddle Chinese桂(kweiH).

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桂(けい)• (kei) 

1. Chinese cinnamon,Cinnamomum cassia

   Synonyms:東京肉桂(tonkin nikkei),支那肉桂(shina nikkei),カシア(kashia)

2. common name for various other trees infamilyLauraceae
3. (in compounds)木犀(mokusei,“sweet osmanthus tree”)

From a Chinese legend that the phases of the moon were caused bykei trees, which would bud, blossom, then drop their flowers and leaves again as if in accelerated seasons.

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桂(けい)• (kei) 

1. (euphemistic) themoon

   Synonyms:月(tsuki),桂花(keika)

• 桂(けい)花(か)(keika),桂華(けいか)(keika):(metaphor) themoon, from a Chinese legend of trees growing on the moon
• 桂(けい)月(げつ)(keigetsu):synonym of月(tsuki,“the moon”); the eighthlunar month

Abbreviation of桂馬(keima), theknight in将棋(shōgi,“Japanese chess”).

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桂(けい)• (kei) 

1. (shogi) theknight in将棋(shōgi,“Japanese chess”)

   Synonym:桂馬(keima)

• 成桂(なりけい)(narikei)

• “^▲桂”, in漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese),The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation,2015–2026

桂 (eumhun계수나무계(gyesunamu gye))

1. hanja form^? of계(“cinnamon”)

桂:Hán Nôm readings:quế

桂

1. chữ Hán form ofquế(“cinnamon”)

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