Kanji
薮
kanji character
thicket
bush
underbrush
grove
薮 kanji-薮 thicket, bush, underbrush, grove
薮
Meaning
thicket bush underbrush
Readings
Kun'yomi
- やぶ thicket
- やぶ へび unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself
- やぶ か Aedes (genus of mosquitoes)
On'yomi
- そう たく wetland with abundant vegetation
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Component Analysis
Common Words
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薮 thicket, bush, grove... -
薮 蛇 unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself, stirring up a hornet's nest -
薮 蚊 Aedes (genus of mosquitoes), striped mosquito -
薮 そばyabu soba, green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff -
薮 沢 wetland with abundant vegetation, place where things are gathered -
薮 蔭 thicket -
薮 椿 wild camellia (Camellia japonica), common camellia -
竹 薮 bamboo grove -
薮 睨 みsquint, cross-eyed, mistaken view -
薮 にらみsquint, cross-eyed, mistaken view -
薮 の中 being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony), being unknown, in a grove -
薮 入 りholiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months -
草 薮 thicket, bush, clump of bushes -
笹 薮 thicket of bamboo grass -
薮 医 者 inept doctor, bad doctor, poor doctor... -
薮 柑 子 spearflower (Ardisia japonica) -
薮 蕎 麦 yabu soba, green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff -
薮 茗 荷 East Asian pollia (Pollia japonica) -
薮 野 兎 European hare (Lepus europaeus), brown hare -
薮 枯 らしbushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica) -
薮 ワラビーpademelon, paddymelon -
薮 蛇 になるto only make work for oneself, to stir up a hornet's nest, to put one's foot in one's mouth -
薮 蛇 に成 るto only make work for oneself, to stir up a hornet's nest, to put one's foot in one's mouth -
姫 薮 蘭 Liriope minor (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family) -
薮 をつついて蛇 を出 すto stir up trouble for oneself, to scare out a snake by poking at the bush -
八 幡 の薮 知 らずYawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze... -
八 幡 の薮 不 知 Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend), thicket from which one cannot escape, maze...