willow

Radicals

Common words

• 川柳【せんりゅう】
  senryū, comic haiku, humorous seventeen-mora poem
• 青柳【あおやぎ】
  green willow (i.e. one that has budded), meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
• 花柳【かりゅう】
  red-light district
• 花柳界【かりゅうかい】
  red-light district, pleasure quarters, world of the geisha, demimonde
• 柳刃包丁【やなぎばぼうちょう】
  kitchen knife for sashimi