檜

檜 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+13, 17 strokes, cangjie input 木人一日 (DOMA), four-corner 4896₆, composition ⿰木會)

1. Chinese cypress (Cupressus duclouxiana)
2. Chinese juniper (Juniperus chinensis)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 557, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 15676
• Dae Jaweon: page 946, character 18
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1303, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6A9C

檜

1. Chinese juniper

   • 淇水滺滺、檜楫松舟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     淇水滺滺、桧楫松舟。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Qíshuǐ yóuyóu, guìjí sōngzhōu. [Pinyin]

     The waters of the Qi flow smoothly; there are the oars of juniper and boats of pine.

• 圓柏／圆柏 (yuánbǎi)

檜

1. Used in personal names.

   秦檜／秦桧  ―  Qín Huì  ―  Qin Hui

• Its use in personal names is now rare because of Qin Hui (1090-1155), a chancellor of the Southern Song who is widely regarded and condemned as a traitor to the Chinese people for his part in the persecution and execution of his political enemy, Yue Fei, a general who fought for the Song against the Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song Wars.

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 桧)

• Go-on: け (ke)^{←け (ke, historical)←くゑ (kwe, ancient)}、かち (kachi)^{←くわち (kwati, historical)}
• Kan-on: かい (kai)^{←くわい (kwai, historical)}、かつ (katsu)^{←くわつ (kwatu, historical)}
• Kun: ひ (hi, 檜)、ひのき (hinoki, 檜)

• 老檜(ろうかい) (rōkai)
• 翌檜(アスナロ) (asunaro), 翌檜(アスナロウ) (asunarō)

Originally a compound of 檜 (hi, “Japanese cypress”, see below) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”).^[1][2]

The wood and bark was commonly used as tinder, and the term was previously thought to be from 火 (hi, “fire”) +‎ の (no, attributive particle) +‎ 木 (ki, “tree”). However, later research into ancient kana usage in Old Japanese revealed that 檜 had a reading of ⟨pi₁⟩, while 火 was read as ⟨pi₂⟩, ruling out this derivation.^[1]

• (Tokyo) ひのき [hìnókí] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• (Tokyo) ひのき [híꜜnòkì] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [çino̞kʲi]

• (Kyōto) ひ​のき [híꜜnòkì] (Kōki – [1])^[5]

檜(ひのき) or 檜(ヒノキ) • (hinoki) 

1. Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)

• As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as ヒノキ (hinoki).

• → English: hinoki
  • ⇒ English: hinokitiol

檜(ひのき) • (Hinoki) 

1. a female given name
2. a surname

⟨pi₁⟩ → */pʲi/ → /ɸi/ → /hi/

From Old Japanese 檜 (pi₁).^[6][2][7]

First appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE.^[6][7]

檜(ひ) • (hi) 

1. (archaic, or in compounds) Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)

• “^▲檜”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[4] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

檜 • (hoe, gwal) (hangeul 회, 괄, revised hoe, gwal, McCune–Reischauer hoe, kwal, Yale hoy, kwal)

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• 회목 (檜木, hoemok, “Japanese cypress”)

From Proto-Japonic *pi. Cognate with Okinawan 檜 (finuchi, < *pinoki).

檜 (pi₁) (kana ひ)

1. Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa)
   • 711–712, Kojiki, poem 100:

     ...麻紀佐久比能美加度...

     ...maki₂ saku pi₁ no mi₁kado₁...

     ...this wooded palace of flourishing cypresses...

• Japanese: 檜 (hi, hinoki)

檜: Hán Việt readings: cối^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}
檜: Nôm readings: cối^{[1][3][5][6][7][8]}, cội^{[1][3][5][6][7][8]}, củi^{[1][3][5][6][7][8]}, cuối^{[1][3][5][6][7][8]}, cuội^[5][6][7][8], gối^[1][8], cụi^[3][8], cói^[1], cỗi^[1], cúi^[1]

1. chữ Nôm form of cói (“certain species in the family Cyperaceae, chiefly within the genus Cyperus”)
2. chữ Nôm form of cối
   1. mortar
   2. used in cây cối (“plant (generally speaking)”)
3. chữ Nôm form of cỗi (“(of tree) stunted by old age”)
4. chữ Nôm form of cội (“(rare, of a tree) root”)
5. chữ Nôm form of cúi
   1. (archaic) pig
   2. to bend (one's body)
6. chữ Nôm form of củi (“firewood”)
7. chữ Nôm form of cuối (“end; terminal part; last”)
8. chữ Nôm form of gối
   1. pillow
   2. to rest one's head on something
   3. knee (joint in the middle of the leg and area around it)