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plant
Stroke count: 12

Readings

On readingショク
Kun readingう.えるう.わる

Meanings

  1. plantRtK
  1. to plant
  2. to grow
  3. to raise
  4. to insert
  5. to transplant

Popular Usage

植える植物植木植わる

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

tree () · wood () · straightaway · ten () · needle () · eye () · fishhook

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 217

Compound words

彼は2、3の誤も見逃さなかった。
He did not look over a few typographical errors.tatoeba
彼が手術するかどうかは、移する臓器の提供次第だ。
Whether he has the operation depends upon the availability of the organ.tatoeba
破壊の結果、毎日50種類もの野生の動物が消滅していると見積もられている。
It has been estimated that, as a result of the destruction, fifty species of wildlife are disappearing from the earth each day.tatoeba
農夫達は稲をえていた。
The peasants were planting rice.tatoeba
袖垣の柱にえる木でウメが好まれる。
This is a tree planted beside a sode-gaki fence (a low fence to either side of a gate), Japanese plum being preferred.wiki
枝葉が手水鉢の水穴にかかるようにえる。
It is planted in order for its branches and leaves to cover the mouth of the water basin.wiki
物名称の一つ。
Name of a plant.wiki
温室物650種
Greenhouse plants: Six hundred and fifty specieswiki
その中に木枝盛がいた。
Emori UEKI was one of them.wiki
木方面の敗走によって、田原坂の重厚な防衛線は破られた。
When the Satsuma army fled to the Ueki area, their heavy line of defense at Tabaru Slope fell.wiki

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