#笹

[daily-hyosatsu]

Today, a name with one of my favorite characters! 笹津 is read Sasatsu or Sasazu.

笹, which I love, is new to this blog! It refers to a plant: sasa, also called bamboo grass or broad-leaf bamboo. The radicals are ⺮ bamboo crown, fittingly, and 世 world/generation.

The kun-yomi is ささ (which I remember as the whispering sound that the leaves make), and there actually is no on-yomi. That's because it's a 国字 kokuji, or Japan-made kanji, so it doesn't exist in Chinese. More on those here.

津, as we covered the other day, means port, harbor, or ferry. It's read つ or シン.

[mechadeimos]

[nora-yoko]

[rumeko]

March in the sun

弥生

[stillcamera]

[bearbench-kanji]

国字（笹）

国字（笹）

[漢字] 笹 [読み] ささ [意味] 葉が細かく茎がしなやかな竹に似た植物や「笹」の字を���む地名や人名が多くあります。イネ科タケ亜科に属する植物の総称です。笹は小型で、竹よりも細く、葉が短い特徴があります。日本では、山地や里山などに多く自生しており、特に東アジアの地域に広く分布しています。

[findflower96]

笹山りん

[paradiseyuri]

Created by : ☆笹塚☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[setsukochihara]

ぺこらママ by 笹目めと [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[favoritephoto]

[himekokosu]

Lilium japonicum

[holespoles]

Masaaki Sasamoto

Boiling at night

笹本正明

[rumeko]

wind

[wankohouse]

国府宮　儺追神事（はだか祭）

[p-panmzg]

[findflower96]

笹山りん