桜

櫻
yīng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Japanese variant form of 樱, cherry; cherry blossom

Examples

HSK 7-9
Rìyǔ lǐ yīnghuā de yīng xiěchéng yīng.
In Japanese the cherry blossom is written 桜, the shinjitai of 樱.

Tips

history
Not a standard modern Chinese character. It is the Japanese postwar simplified (shinjitai) form of 櫻; mainland China simplified the same character to 樱 instead, as in 樱花 (cherry blossom).
mistakes
When writing Chinese, use 樱; 桜 appears only in Japanese text, brand names, and names.

Components

radical
木 mù
tree; wood
The tree radical 木 is kept from 樱, marking this as the name of a flowering tree, the cherry.
ideograph
关 guān
simplified graphic residue
The right side is a Japanese stylized reduction of the busy double-shell-plus-woman right half of 櫻; it no longer maps to any meaning and is a pure simplified graphic residue.

No stroke data for 桜; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.

Stroke Order

桜 yīng