木
き
hepburn ki
tree, wood
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 庭に大きい木があります。There is a big tree in the garden.
- この本は木でできています。This desk is made of wood.
Collocations
大きい木 (big tree)木でできている (made of wood)木の葉 (leaves)木の上 (on the tree)森 (forest, batch 8)
Mnemonic
木 ki-tree — ① living tree ② wood (material). Separate slug from 気 ki-spirit (batch 7) under v1.1 A-2. The kanji is heavily reused as a radical: 林 hayashi (small forest = two 木) and 森 mori (large forest = three 木). Excellent example of visual kanji logic.
Quick check
Two 木 combined make which kanji?