藤 means “wisteria”

ふじ · fuji

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

ふじ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

トウ, ドウ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 18 strokes

The story

Grass (艹) over a vine twisting down to water (氺): wisteria, climbing and spilling in purple clusters. Spring crowds gather under 藤棚 trellises, and 藤 runs through Japan's surnames: 佐藤, the most common of all, plus 伊藤, 加藤 and 斎藤.

Used in 藤 (fuji, wisteria), 藤棚 (fujidana, wisteria trellis), and 佐藤 (satou, Satō)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.