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Kanji for Catalpa
The kanji for “catalpa” is 梓, read shi and written in 11 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
梓
catalpa
The catalpa tree, whose wood was used for printing blocks; it came to mean “publishing.”
11 strokes On reading シ (shi) Kun reading あずさ (azusa) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: catalpa tree, woodblock printing
Readings used for names on Nazuke: shi
In Japan it appears in about 111 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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