Radical 75

Radical 75 or radical tree, meaning "tree", is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals composed of 4 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 1,369 characters to be found under this radical.
木 is also the 64th indexing component in the Table of Indexing [Chinese Character Components] predominantly adopted by Chinese characters|Simplified Chinese] dictionaries published in mainland China, with its alternative form being its associated indexing component.
In the Chinese Wu Xing, 木 represents the element Wood.

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As an isolated character it is one of the kyōiku kanji or kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a first grade kanji. It is present in the name of Japan meaning "Origin of the Sun".

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