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  *樹* | 樹* | *樹
tree / CL: / to cultivate / to set up
HSK 1
pine / pine tree / CL:
HSK 4
peach tree / CL:
HSK 5
fruit tree / CL:
HSK 6
poplar tree / various trees of genus Populus
HSK 7-9
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
HSK 7-9
willow
HSK 7-9
cypress tree / Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]
HSK 7-9
to make a contribution / to establish / to found / contribution
HSK 7-9
breadfruit tree / Artocarpus altilis
maple
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis), whose bark, flowers and leaves are used in TCM
Christmas tree
to plant trees
oak
peepul (Ficus religiosa); bodhi tree; sacred fig
Zhangshu, county-level city in Yichun 宜春, Jiangxi
camphor / Cinnamonum camphara
eucalyptus
legendary tree that sheds coins when shaken / (fig.) source of easy money
tea tree / Camellia sinensis
Lishu county in Siping 四平, Jilin / Lishu district of Jixi city 雞西|鸡西, Heilongjiang
pear tree
roadside tree; street tree
Yushu, county-level city in Changchun 長春|长春, Jilin
elm
lac tree (Rhus vernicifera)
jujube tree / date tree / Zizyphus vulgaris / CL:
lit. an ant trying to shake a tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate oneself; to overestimate one's capabilities
palm tree
dragon tree / Dracaena (botany)
plum tree
birch
"ants climbing a tree", a Sichuan dish made with cellophane noodles 粉絲|粉丝 and ground meat (so called because the particles of meat clinging to the noodles look like ants on the twigs of a tree) / (sex position) man standing, woman clinging to his upper body / (erotic massage) full-body licking
Chinese horse chestnut (Aesculus chinensis)
banyan
palm tree
conifer
lit. orchids and jade trees (idiom); fig. a child with splendid future prospects
oak tree
mulberry tree, with leaves used to feed silkworms
Cinchona ledgeriana, tree whose bark contains quinine
fir
maple
Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250 AD), Buddhist philosopher
laurel tree (Laurus nobilis) / bay tree
sago palm (Cycas revoluta)
lit. an ant trying to shake a big tree (idiom) / fig. to overrate one's own strength / also written 蚍蜉撼樹|蚍蜉撼树
Chinese sweetgum (Liquidambar formosana)
black locust tree (Robinia pseudoacacia)
lit. reeds leaning on a jade tree (idiom) / fig. the lowly associating with the noble; the weak seeking help from the strong
apricot tree
Kaoshu township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县, Taiwan
olive tree
rubber tree
to chop wood / to chop down trees
boabab tree / monkey-bread tree / Adansonia digitata (botany)
MURAKAMI Haruki (1949-), Japanese novelist and translator
short tree / bush / shrub
shrub / small tree / sapling / CL:
orange tree
to plant trees
long peduncled alder (Alnus cremastogyne) / Alnus trebeculata
paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
decision tree
white poplar (Populus bonatii)
pomegranate tree
grapevine
trees / greenery
Chinese honey locust (Gleditsia sinensis)
silkworm thorn tree
holly
a family tree
croton bush (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科, with seed having strong purgative properties
binary tree
(computing) search tree
Mongolian oak (Quercus dentata) / Daimyo oak
YUKAWA Hideki (1907-1988), Japanese theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate
blue sandalwood (Pteroceltis tatarinowii Maxim), the bark of which is used to manufacture 宣紙|宣纸
Chinese sumac (Rhus chinensis)
coca plant (source of cocaine)
locust tree (Sophora japonica)
evergreen tree
Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis)
Catalpa bungei or Manchurian Catalpa, a tea plant
KAIFU Toshiki (1931-), Japanese politician, prime minister 1989-1991
useless person (originally from Zhuangzi's "A Happy Excursion" 逍遙遊|逍遥游)
spanning tree (in graph theory)
heath
red alder (Alnus rubra)
red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) / CL:
Antiaris toxicaria (botany)
Talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera), whose leaves were used as writing media
pistachio tree
Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei)
citron (Citrus medica) / grapefruit


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