Plants & vegetation
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On'yomi & Kun'yomi
On'yomi (音読み) is the reading borrowed from Chinese, usually used in compound words, e.g. 三月 (さんがつ, March).
Kun'yomi (訓読み) is the native Japanese reading, used when the kanji stands alone or takes kana endings, e.g. 三つ (みっつ, three items).
By convention the readings list writes on'yomi in katakana (シュ) and kun'yomi in hiragana (さけ). Example words show furigana in hiragana, so the same on'yomi can look like シュ in the list but しゅ in a word.
What the component colors mean
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
taro
roasted sweet potato
tubers, potatoes
sweets, confectionery
confectionery making
famous local sweets
wilderness
ruin, devastation
rough, wild
lawn
play, drama; pretense
lawn grass
firewood and charcoal
firelight Noh play
splitting firewood
accumulation
savings
to store up, to save
heartless, cold
thin, diluted, sparse
thin, light (color)
luxuriant growth
to grow thick
thicket, bush
Practice
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