raspberry (plant of genus Rubus)
Refers to raspberry plants, especially Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus. Often written in kana (キイチゴ) in practice.
I planted a raspberry bush in the garden.
In summer, you can pick lots of raspberries in the mountains.
木苺 is a native Japanese word naming a specific bramble/raspberry-type fruit, whereas ベリー is a general loanword covering many kinds of berries.
苺 is the common garden strawberry, while 木苺 refers to raspberries and similar bramble berries, a different plant despite the shared 苺 kanji.
Standard kanji spelling for raspberry plants.
Katakana spelling commonly used in botanical contexts and everyday writing.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; sometimes used for clarity.
Variant kanji form using 莓; less common than 木苺.
Rare ateji spelling; mainly encountered in older botanical texts.
Compound of 木 (ki, 'tree') + 苺 (ichigo, 'strawberry'), literally 'tree strawberry', referring to the bush-like growth habit of raspberries compared to ground-growing strawberries.