藤
wisteria
Readings
On'yomi
- トウ
- ドウ
Kun'yomi
- ふじ
Nanori
- ぞう
- と
- ふじゅ
Meaning
藤 centers on the wisteria plant, a climbing vine known for its cascading purple flowers.
Most common words using 藤
20 of 55- 藤ふじ
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
- 葛藤かっとう
conflict; complication; troubles; discord
- 藤本とうほん
climbing trees; liana
- 藤四郎とうしろ
amateur; novice; layman
- 伊藤忠商事いとうちゅうしょうじ
Itochu Corporation
- 藤棚ふじだな
wisteria trellis; wisteria arbor (arbour); wisteria pergola
- 藤花とうか
wisteria flower
- 伊藤忠テクノサイエンスいとうちゅうテクノサイエンス
Itochu Techno-Science Corporation
- 伊藤忠燃料いとうちゅうねんりょう
Itochu Fuel Corporation
- 伊藤流いとうりゅう
Itō style; customary order of setting up the board in which pawns are placed before the rook and bishop
- 佐藤商事さとうしょうじ
Sato Shoji Corporation
- 佐藤秀さとうしゅう
Satohide Corporation
- 加藤汽船かとうきせん
Katou Kisen
- 夏藤なつふじ
Millettia japonica (species of flowering plant)
- 安藤建設あんどうけんせつ
Ando Corporation
- 宝冠藤花章ほうかんとうかしょう
Order of the Precious Crown, Wistaria
- 山藤やまふじ
silky wisteria (Wisteria brachybotrys)
- 工藤會くどうかい
Kudō-kai (yakuza group)
- 庭藤にわふじ
Chinese indigo (Indigofera decora); summer wisteria
- 支那藤しなふじ
Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)
Study
Etymology
藤 combines the grass radical 艹 with 滕, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to climbing or rising, fitting a vine. The exact historical development of 滕 is uncertain.
Meaning mnemonic
The top grass radical 艹 suggests a plant, and the bottom 滕 looks like a tangle of vines climbing upward. Picture wisteria vines twisting around a trellis.
Reading mnemonic
For トウ, imagine a wisteria vine growing all the way to the top of a tall tower: tower -> トウ, and the vine reaches the top.