イチョウ

• 大おお銀杏いちょう

  large ginkgo tree · ginkgo-leaf topknot (sumo)

• イチョウガニ

  Cancer japonicus; a species of crab

• イチョウハクジラ

  ginkgo-toothed beaked whale

• 銀杏返いちょうがえし

  ancient Japanese ladies' hairstyle; ginkgo-leaf chignon

• アメリカイチョウガニ

  Dungeness crab

• イチョウUsage58%
  kana-only spelling

  Katakana spelling is standard for this plant name; usually written in kana.

• いちょうUsage36%
  gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun

  Hiragana spelling is also common and matches the usual-kana preference.

• 公孫樹Usage5%iUsage for this spelling across all readings, not one reading alone.
  • こうそんじゅ

    Literary Chinese-derived name meaning 'grandson tree'; very rare. The reading こうそんじゅ is restricted to this form.

  • いちょう

    gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
• 銀杏いちょう
  gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun

  Ateji spelling using kanji for 'silver' and 'apricot'; the reading いちょう is a gikun/jukujikun. Rarely used in modern writing.

• 鴨脚樹いちょう
  gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun

  Obscure variant meaning 'duck-foot tree'; almost never used.

• こうそんじゅ

The Japanese name イチョウ likely derives from Chinese 鴨脚 (yājiǎo, 'duck foot'), referring to the leaf shape. The kanji 銀杏 are ateji borrowed from Chinese, where they originally referred to the apricot-like fruit.