松 — pine tree

まつ松 pine tree

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+677E Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #471 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #792 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

pine tree

word

まつ matsu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

松(まつ) matsu pine tree 松(まつ) 本(もと) matsumoto Matsumoto (place name/surname) 松(まつ) 田(だ) matsuda Matsuda (surname) 松(まつ) 下(した) matsushita Matsushita (surname/company) 松(まつ) 山(やま) matsuyama Matsuyama (city in Ehime) 高(たか) 松(まつ) takamatsu Takamatsu (city in Kagawa) 小(こ) 松(まつ) komatsu Komatsu 松(まつ) 子(こ) matsuko Matsuko (female given name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

き木 tree #75

こう公 public

Phono-semantic compound (形声). 木 (tree) provides the semantic domain. 公 (shō/kō, public) gives the sound. The pine tree — an evergreen associated with longevity.

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#75 木 tree