桐

桐 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 木月一口 (DBMR), four-corner 4792₀, composition ⿰木同)

• 𫈷

• KangXi: page 525, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14770
• Dae Jaweon: page 914, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1198, character 7
• Unihan data for U+6850

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *doːŋ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 同 (OC *doːŋ).

桐

1. various trees related to the tung tree (now distinguished as oil-tung 油桐), particularly paulownia
2. a surname

• “桐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. paulownia

• Go-on: ずう (zū)^{←づう (duu, historical)}
• Kan-on: とう (tō)
• Kan’yō-on: どう (dō)
• Kun: きり (kiri, 桐)
• Nanori: ひさ (hisa); き (ki)

From Old Japanese. The tree may have been imported from China prior to the Nara period.[1]

The term might be from 切り (kiri, “cutting”), from the way that the tree is quick to send out shoots after being cut.[2]

Some sources[2] also speculate that this might be from some term 木理 (*kiri, “wood grain”) in reference to the desirable grain of this wood. However, 木理 is only attested with the reading mokuri, not kiri; also, the term is not attested until the 1830s, before which the Japanese terms for wood grain were 木目 (mokume, from the mid-1500s) or 木目 (kime, from the 1200s).

• (Tokyo) きり [kìrí] (Heiban – [0])[3][4][5]
• IPA^(key): [kʲiɾʲi]

桐(きり) • (kiri) 

1. [from 700s] the paulownia tree, Paulownia tomentosa

   Hypernym: 胡麻の葉草 (goma no hagusa)

2. [date uncertain] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of paulownia flowers and leaves
3. [from 1781] (card games) the paulownia suit in a hanafuda deck, representing the month of December

   Hyponym: 桐に鳳凰 (kiri ni hōō)

4. [from 1798] (colloquial) a koto (Japanese zither)

   from the wood of the paulownia used as the soundboard

   Synonym: 琴 (koto)

5. [from 1815] (colloquial) money, especially gold coins such as the 大判 (ōban) and the 小判 (koban)

   from the markings of paulownia crests on the coins

• 桐(きり)一(ひと)葉(は) (kiri hitoha)

• 花札(はなふだ) (hanafuda) suits: 松(まつ) (matsu, “pine”), 梅(うめ) (ume, “plum blossoms”), 桜(さくら) (sakura, “sakura”), 藤(ふじ) (fuji, “wisteria”), 菖蒲(あやめ) (ayame, “iris”), 牡丹(ぼたん) (botan, “peony”), 萩(はぎ) (hagi, “bush clover”), 芒(すすき) (susuki, “susuki grass”), 菊(きく) (kiku, “chrysanthemum”), 紅葉(もみじ) (momiji, “autumn leaves”), 柳(やなぎ) (yanagi, “willow”), 桐(きり) (kiri, “paulownia”)

桐(きり) • (Kiri) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

桐 (eumhun 오동나무 동 (odongnamu dong))

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桐 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of toòng.

• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

桐: Hán Nôm readings: đồng

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