Kanji
Readingよう
Frequency1%
Used in (153 in total)
counter for leaves, pieces of paper, etc.; (arch.) counter for boats
autumn colours; fall colors; leaves turning red; red leaves; leaves turning yellow; yellow leaves; (Japanese) maple (Acer japonicum)
one leaf; one page; one sheet; (arch.) one boat
branches and leaves; foliage; unimportant details; nonessentials; side issue
fallen leaves; leaf litter; leaf fall; dropping leaves; deciduous
ornamental (foliage) plant; houseplant
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry)
Man'yōshū (8th century anthology of Japanese poetry); (arch.) thousands of leaves; (arch.) thousands of years; (arch.) all ages
two flat things
conifer; needle-leaved tree
humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch
conifer forest; coniferous forest; needle-leaved forest
leaf vegetable; green vegetable; edible herb
veins of a leaf
floral leaf
lobe; lobule; lobulus; leaflet; foliole; microphyll
about the middle (of an era); middle lobe (right lung); median lobe (prostate)
unimportant details; inessentials
(Japanese) larch (Larix leptolepis, Larix kaempferi)
Tokyo and Chiba
right lobe
leaf stalk; petiole
Stevenson screen (louvre-sided box housing for meteorological gauges)
man'yōgana; early Japanese syllabary composed of Chinese characters used phonetically
(pine) needle; needle-leaf
new leaves; young leaves; fresh verdure
willow-leaf arrowhead; part of a Japanese stirrup; willow leaf
Blossoms fall and leaves scatter; the evanescence (impermanence) of worldly things
upper lobe (of lung); superior lobe
end (of an era, century); close; descendant
broad-leaved forest; broadleaf forest
evergreen (glossy-leaved) forest
compound leaf; biplane
bloodline; lineage; family; clan
Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai); goyoumatsu
cotyledon; seed leaf
thin Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper); Japanese tissue
broad-leaved tree
poetic style typical of Man'yōshū
true leaf; foliage leaf
member of the Imperial family; royalty; beautiful clouds
simple leaf; monoplane
stems and leaves
preceding page; anterior pituitary
Japanese white pine (favored for gardens and bonsai)
beginning of an epoch; initial period
thin sheet of silver; silver foil; censer; incense burner made of a sheet of mica hemmed by silver and placed on charcoal embers, used in incense-smelling ceremony; Japanese mountain ash (Sorbus japonica); Japanese whitebeam
posterity; future generations; descendant; posterior pituitary; neurohypophysis
East Asian evergreen forest culture (theory)
pulmonary lobe; lobe of the lung
lotus leaf
thin paper (esp. thin Japanese vellum paper)
laminitis; founder
pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
scale leaf (forming part of a bulb)
center of the Garbhadhatu mandala (containing Mahavairocana and eight Buddhas)
lobe of the liver
lusterleaf holly (Ilex latifolia); pattra (palmyra leaves used in Ancient India for writing upon)
thick Japanese paper (esp. vellum paper)
radical leaf; rosette
deciduous (e.g. tree)
next page
palm-leaf manuscript
bract (leaf)
leafy vegetables; stem vegetables
sterile frond
adenohypophyseal hormone
radical leaf; rosette; basal leaf
a straw will show which way the wind blows; a falling leaf shows that autumn has come
lower lobe (of lung); inferior lobe
neurohypophyseal hormone
anterior pituitary; pars distalis; adenohypophysis
autumn foliage front; fall foliage front
foliaceous; foliaceus
floating-leaved plant; floating plant
petiole wing (leaf)
pruning excess leaves; leaf thinning
phyllotaxis; phyllotaxy
omasum; psalterium; third compartment of the stomach in ruminants
cladophyll; cladode; phylloclade
germ layer; germinal epithelium
sclerophyllous tree
sclerophyll forest; sclerophyllous forest; hardwood forest
Order of the Precious Crown, Apricot
Dactylostalix ringens (species of orchid); rigid Dactylostalix
Ephippianthus schmidtii (species of orchid)
Lecanorchis japonica (species of saprophytic orchid)
Amami pine (Pinus amamiana); Yakushima white pine
Atlas broom (Argyrocytisus battandieri)
kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
foliage; leaves of trees