藪 — kanji meaning “thicket”
藪
thicket, bush, underbrush, grove
- Meanings
- thicket, bush, underbrush, grove
- On'yomi
- ソウ (sou)
- Kun'yomi
- やぶ
- Strokes
- 18
- Classical radical
- 140
- Chinese reading
- sǒu — Chinese character page
Words with 藪
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藪にらみ | やぶにらみ yabunirami | squint; cross-eyed |
| 藪柑子 | やぶこうじ yabukouji | spearflower (Ardisia japonica) |
| 藪の中 | やぶのなか yabunonaka | being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony); being unknown; in a grove |
| 藪萱草 | やぶかんぞう yabukanzou | orange daylily (Hemerocallis fulva var. kwanso); tawny daylily |
| 藪雨 | やぶさめ yabusame | Asian stubtail (Urosphena squameiceps) |
| 藪蕎麦 | やぶそば yabusoba | yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff |
| 藪肉桂 | やぶにっけい yabunikkei | Japanese cinnamon (Cinnamomum japonicum) |
| 藪枯らし | やぶがらし yabugarashi | bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica) |
| 藪医 | やぶい yabui | (medical) quack |
| 藪犬 | やぶいぬ yabuinu | bush dog (Speothos venaticus) |
| 藪虱 | やぶじらみ yabujirami | erect hedge parsley (Torilis japonica); Japanese hedge parsley; upright hedge parsley |
| 藪蘇鉄 | やぶそてつ yabusotetsu | Japanese holly fern (Cyrtomium fortunei) |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.