栽
plantation, planting
Readings
On'yomi
- サイ
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
栽 centers on putting plants into the ground to grow: planting and the resulting plantation. The idea is deliberate cultivation rather than wild growth.
Most common words using 栽
20 of 37- 栽培さいばいN2
cultivation
- 盆栽ぼんさいN1
bonsai; miniature potted plant
- 植栽しょくさい
raising plants; cultivating (vegetation); planting
- テラス栽培テラスさいばい
terrace culture
- トンネル栽培トンネルさいばい
plastic tunnel crop cultivation; growing crops in long barrel-roofed vinyl greenhouses
- ハウス栽培ハウスさいばい
greenhouse cultivation
- 不耕起栽培ふこうきさいばい
no-till farming
- 作物栽培学さくもつさいばいがく
agronomy
- 促成栽培そくせいさいばい
forcing (plants, vegetables, etc.); artificially hastening the growth of plants (by controlling heat, light, etc.)
- 前栽せんざい
garden; trees and flowers in a garden
- 前栽物せんざいもの
greens; vegetables
- 単一栽培たんいつさいばい
monoculture
- 抑制栽培よくせいさいばい
late raising; artificial slowing of growth of plants
- 施設栽培しせつさいばい
intensive cultivation; greenhouse farming
- 有機栽培ゆうきさいばい
organic farming; organic cultivation
- 果樹栽培かじゅさいばい
fruit growing; pomiculture
- 果樹栽培者かじゅさいばいしゃ
orchardist; fruit grower
- 栽培化さいばいか
crop domestication
- 栽培品種さいばいひんしゅ
cultivar; agrotype
- 栽培家さいばいか
grower; farmer
Study
Etymology
栽 combines 木 (tree/plant) with a phonetic component that also appears in 裁 and 載. The phonetic likely contributed the sound サイ and the overall structure suggests planting or setting plants into the ground.
Meaning mnemonic
The top-left part looks like a tool (戈) digging into the earth (土), and the lower part is a tree (木). Picture a gardener using a tool to plant a tree in the soil.
Reading mnemonic
For サイ, imagine planting a sighing tree: sigh -> サイ, and each sigh helps the tree settle into the plantation.