Japanese
Noun
植木 (hiragana うえき, romaji ueki, historical hiragana うゑき)
- a planted tree or shrub, as in a garden or pot
- by extension, a bonsai
- a live tree in general, not necessarily in a garden or pot
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 植木市 (ueki ichi): a plant market or fair
- 植木算 (uekizan): “potted-plant calculation”: a kind of algebra problem concerning a set of evenly spaced potted plants, telephone poles, or similar objects, wherein the problem gives any two of the interval between items, total number of items, or total distance, and the solver is asked to calculate the missing data
- 植木師 (uekishi): a professional gardener or landscaper
- 植木店 (uekidana): a plant store, a plant nursery; Edo-period slang for a neighborhood in the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo, so called for the concentration of plant nurseries
- 植木鋏 (uekibasami): garden shears, pruning shears
- 植木鉢 (uekibachi): a flowerpot, a pot for planting
- 植木屋 (uekiya): a store selling potted plants; a professional gardener or landscaper
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Synonyms
- (planted tree): 庭木 (niwaki): a tree growing in a garden or yard
- (live tree): 立ち木, 立木 (tachiki): literally, a “standing tree”
- (bonsai): 盆栽 (bonsai)
Proper noun
植木 (hiragana うえき, romaji Ueki, historical hiragana うゑき)
- A surname.
References
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↑ 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
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1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9