樹

音読おんよみ: ジュ

訓読くんよみ: none *

画数かくすう: 16

部首ぶしゅ: きへん(木)

Meaning

Tree / Establish / Plant

  • 樹木じゅもく — trees
  • 果樹かじゅ — fruit tree
  • 植樹しょくじゅ — tree planting
  • 樹立じゅりつ — establishment
  • 風樹ふうじゅ — “wind and tree” (filial piety metaphor)

樹 is a semantic–phonetic compound: the radical 木 (tree) plus the phonetic 尌 (ジュ, “to stand/establish”). It evokes planting or setting something upright and firm—like a tree taking root—hence “to establish.”

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