檜

檜 U+6A9C, 檜 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6A9C ← 檛 [U+6A9B] CJK Unified Ideographs 檝 → [U+6A9D]

檜 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木人一日 (DOMA), four-corner 4896₆, composition ⿰木會)

1. Chinese cypress (Cupressus duclouxiana)
2. Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 557, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15676
• Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1303, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A9C

trad.		檜
simp.		桧

檜

1. Chinese juniper

   • 淇水滺滺、檜楫松舟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     淇水滺滺、桧楫松舟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qíshuǐ yóuyóu, guìjí sōngzhōu. [Pinyin]

     The waters of the Qi flow smoothly; there are the oars of juniper and boats of pine.

• 圓柏／圆柏 (yuánbǎi)

檜

1. Used in personal names.

   秦檜／秦桧  ―  Qín Huì  ―  Qin Hui

• Its use in personal names is now rare because of Qin Hui (1090-1155), a chancellor of the Southern Song who is widely regarded and condemned as a traitor to the Chinese people for his part in the persecution and execution of his political enemy, Yue Fei, a general who fought for the Song against the Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song Wars.

Shinjitai	桧
Kyūjitai	檜

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 桧)

• Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}、かち (kachi)^{←くわち (kwati, historical)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}、かつ (katsu)^{←くわつ (kwatu, historical)}
• Kun: ひ (hi, 檜)、ひのき (hinoki, 檜)

• 老檜(ろうかい) (rōkai)
• 翌檜(アスナロ) (asunaro), 翌檜(アスナロウ) (asunarō)

Kanji in this term
檜
ひのき Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
桧 (shinjitai) 檜木

Originally a compound of 檜 (hi, “Japanese cypress”, see below) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”).^[1][2]

The wood and bark was commonly used as tinder, and the term was previously thought to be from 火 (hi, “fire”) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”). However, later research into ancient kana usage in Old Japanese revealed that 檜 had a reading of ⟨pi₁⟩, while 火 was read as ⟨pi₂⟩, ruling out this derivation.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ひのき [hìnókí] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• (Tokyo) ひのき [híꜜnòkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [çino̞kʲi]

• (Kyoto) ひ​のき [híꜜnòkì] (Kōki – [1])^[5]

檜(ひのき) or 檜(ヒノキ) • (hinoki) 

1. Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒノキ.

• → English: hinoki
  • ⇒ English: hinokitiol

檜(ひのき) • (Hinoki) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

Kanji in this term
檜
ひ Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi

⟨pi₁⟩ → */pʲi/ → /ɸi/ → /hi/

From Old Japanese 檜 (pi₁),^[6][2][7] from Proto-Japonic *pi. Cognate with Okinawan 檜 (finuchi, < *pinoki).

First appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE.^[6][7]

檜(ひ) • (hi) 

1. (archaic, or in compounds) Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)

檜 • (hoe, gwal) (hangeul 회, 괄, revised hoe, gwal, McCune–Reischauer hoe, kwal, Yale hoy, kwal)

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• 회목 (檜木, hoemok, “Japanese cypress”)

From Proto-Japonic *pi. Cognate with Okinawan 檜 (finuchi, < *pinoki).

檜 (pi₁) (kana ひ)

1. Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)
   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 100:

     ...麻紀佐久比能美加度...

     ...maki₂ saku pi₁ no mi₁kado₁...

     ...this wooded palace of flourishing cypresses...

• Japanese: 檜 (hi, hinoki)

檜: Hán Nôm readings: cối

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