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10-10-2010, 03:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Desstile View Post
I'm curious as to when you write cherry blossom and mean JUST the blossoms, not the tree aswell, do you still write it as 桜? I'm asking because I've seen the character written without 木 infront of it and would like to know why.

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That would usually be 桜. You can also say 桜の花.

「桜」 can mean the tree, the blossoms and the combination of the two.
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