き
Meanings
Noun
1. tree; shrub; bush
People cannot remain silent like trees.
2. wood; timber
I found a wooden house.
3. wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
usu. written as 柝
Pitch accent
き
Used in vocabulary (146 in total)
woodcutter; lumberjack; logger
Japanese laurel (Aucuba japonica); spotted laurel; lush, green tree
stones and trees; sticks and stones; apathetic person; cold-hearted person; (arch.) brown coal
tree as seen in winter (esp. a barren deciduous tree); evergreen tree
(arch.) firewood usage fee at an inn (for cooking food brought by the guest); cheap lodging house
garden tree
crossarm; bracket; blade; semaphore
logs in bark; rough wood; unseasoned timber; new lumber
wooden board
original stock
roadside trees; row of trees
plain wood; unfinished woodwork
unbarked lumber
tree climbing
leaf bud; bud of Japanese pepper tree (Xanthoxylum piperitum)
smell of new wood
ancon; bracket; corbel piece
wooden hammer; wooden mallet
wooden pillow
workmen's chant while pulling a heavy load
kanji "tree" radical at left (radical 75)
leaf (of a tree); tree leaves; foliage
fruit of a tree; nut; berry
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
old tree
piece of wood (cut from a larger piece); chip of wood; block of wood
bark (of a tree)
grafting
wooden form; wooden model; wooden pattern
cutting; planting (a cutting)
squirrel
split firewood
ancient tree; old tree
kinoko; mountain-dwelling demon resembling a child
wood lath
wood inlay
plants; vegetation
lumberyard
cherry tree
sacred tree
sacred tree
sacred tree
wooden tag
standing tree; standing timber
young tree; sapling
pine tree
wooden frame; wooden crate; wooden pallet
wood chips; wood offcuts; wood shavings; sawdust
palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)
live tree; green wood; unseasoned wood
dogwood (Cornus controversa)
bark (of tree)
Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir
various kinds of small trees; assorted trees
crosspiece; bar; rail
Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki); Chinese persimmon; kaki
wooden spatula
wood construction; woodworking; (arch.) gardener
to fell a tree
rafter
money tree; gold mine; cash cow; jade plant (Crassula ovata); money plant
if you want to hide a tree, the best place is a forest
grain (of wood); unlacquered woodwork; plain wood; roughly cut wood for carving or lathing
dryad; tree spirit
rubber tree
rubber tree
tree structure
to be blunt; to be curt
flowering tree; Japanese red maple (Acer pycnanthum)
grapevine
Japanese beech (Fagus crenata); Siebold's beech
stock (from which a graft is taken); understock; root stock
breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis); breadfruit tree
tea plant (Camellia sinensis)
subtree
even monkeys fall from trees; anyone can make a mistake; pride comes before a fall; even Homer sometimes nods
wooden peg
canopy (trees)
baseboard; skirting board
to not see the forest for the trees; to not see the wood for the trees; to be caught up with trivial matters and lose sight of the big picture
potted tree
wooden stick; wooden pole
wooden stick; wooden pole
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum); grain borer; wood borer
bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.); gribble (Limnoria lignorum); grain borer; wood borer
flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; (lit.) even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered
flattery will motivate anyone; flattery can do wonders; (lit.) even a pig will climb up a tree if flattered
fragment of wood
Pandanus boninensis (species of screw pine)
trees and grass; vegetation
person who has lost something they used to rely on; (lit.) a monkey fallen from the tree
Schoepfia jasminodora (tree of family Schoepfiaceae)
Naoki Prize (literary award)
Naoki Prize (literary award)
wooden block
wooden Buddha
to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; (lit.) to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree
pounding the edges of planks of wood to join them
pruning shears
kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree
coffee tree
early stachyurus (Stachyurus praecox); early spiketail
layering (a plant)
India rubber tree (Ficus elastica)
wood sledge
plane tree (esp. the Oriental plane, Platanus orientalis)
understory trees; underbrush; undergrowth
buttonwood tree (Platanus occidentalis); American sycamore; buttonball tree
children's game in which a wooden stick driven into the ground is dislodged by sticks thrown at it
Japanese cheesewood (Pittosporum tobira)
part of a wooden board closer to the bark; face side
hollow in a tree
crotch of a tree
hip rafter
gum arabic tree (Senegalia senegal)
coca tree
forked viburnum (Viburnum furcatum); scarlet leaved viburnum
balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale); acajou
red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba); Indian silk-cotton tree
kapok tree (Ceiba pentandra)
loose-flowered hornbeam (Carpinus laxiflora)
tree network
tree search
spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
game tree (in combinatorial game theory)
Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii (variety of bigleaf hydrangea)
Chinese pistache (Pistacia chinensis)
wooden blocks used as clappers
inner side of a wooden board; core side of sawn timber
Naoki Prize (literary award)
wooden vat; wooden tub
wooden side strips of a bow
Ohki Corporation
Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
Shirokiya (department store)
Japanese zelkova
fruits left on a tree during winter (supposedly causing more fruits to appear in the next season)
Kisaka Station
Miki Station (Miki Railway)
Examples (200 in total)
Wood burns.
Wood floats.
I found a wooden house.