桑
mulberry
Readings
On'yomi
- ソウ
Kun'yomi
- くわ
Nanori
- こ
Meaning
桑 centers on the mulberry tree, a plant cultivated for its leaves which feed silkworms.
Most common words using 桑
20 of 35- 桑原くわばら
mulberry field
- 桑田そうでん
mulberry plantation
- 桑くわ
mulberry (tree)
- 扶桑ふそう
divine tree or island east of China; Fusang
- 扶桑社ふそうしゃ
Fusosha Publishing
- 桑子くわこ
silkworm (Bombyx mori)
- 桑園そうえん
mulberry plantation
- 桑畑くわばたけ
mulberry field; mulberry plantation
- 仏桑花ぶっそうげ
Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis); China rose; shoeblack plant
- 八丈桑はちじょうぐわ
Morus kagayamae (species of mulberry)
- 山桑やまぐわ
Chinese mulberry (Morus bombycis)
- 扶桑国ふそうこく
Japan
- 扶桑教ふそうきょう
Fuso-kyo (sect of Shinto)
- 桑原桑原くわばらくわばら
knock on wood; touch wood; heaven forbid; God help me; absit omen!
- 桑実胚そうじつはい
morula
- 桑年そうねん
48 years of age
- 桑摘みくわつみ
picking mulberry leaves; mulberry-leaf pickers
- 桑木虱くわきじらみ
mulberry psyllid (Anomoneura mori)
- 桑海そうかい
this world's sudden changes
- 桑港そうこう
San Francisco
Study
Etymology
桑 is a pictograph of a mulberry tree, with the top 叒 representing the branches and leaves and the bottom 木 the trunk and roots.
Meaning mnemonic
The top 叒 looks like layered branches with leaves, and the bottom 木 is a tree. Together they form the mulberry tree.
Reading mnemonic
For ソウ, imagine sewing (ソウ) silk from silkworms that feed on mulberry leaves: sew -> ソウ, and the tree provides the silk.