Question

札 ふだ tag, paper money, no. of bonds, placard, bid 2 921 5 75 き・きへん 会意 Compound Ideographic Botanists like to identify TREEs by HOOKing tags on them.

Accepted Answer

サツ さっ 札(ふだ): (1) token; label (2) ticket; card (3) charm; talisman改札(かいさつ): (1) examination of tickets (2) ticket gate; ticket barrier名札(なふだ): name plate; name tag; label札(さつ): note; paper money 4 木: tree; wood乙: the latter; duplicate; strange; witty; fishhook radical (no. 5) 木 4 (none) tag Might be good to note that this is also the Kanji for "Paper Money" w/ the reading さつ (千円札＝1000 Yen paper bill)... It also takes on the meaning of Playing Card with the reading of ふだ as in 花札 (Hanafuda cards) or トランプの札 ("trump" playing cards). For the tag meaning I like to think of wooden tags hung on hooks from trees... but for these other meanings I like to think of both paper money and playing cards as paper (tree) products with the ability to "hook you in" so to speak.

Kanji	札
Onyomi	サツ
Kunyomi	ふだ
Nanori	さっ
English	tag, paper money, no. of bonds, placard, bid
Examples	札(ふだ): (1) token; label (2) ticket; card (3) charm; talisman 改札(かいさつ): (1) examination of tickets (2) ticket gate; ticket barrier 名札(なふだ): name plate; name tag; label 札(さつ): note; paper money
JLPT Level	2
Jouyou Grade	4
Frequency	921
Components	木: tree; wood 乙: the latter; duplicate; strange; witty; fishhook radical (no. 5)
Number of Strokes	5
Kanji Radical	木
Radical Number	75
Radical Strokes	4
Radical Reading	き・きへん
Traditional Form	(none)
Classification	会意 Compound Ideographic
Keyword	tag
Koohii Story 1	Botanists like to identify TREEs by HOOKing tags on them.
Koohii Story 2	Might be good to note that this is also the Kanji for "Paper Money" w/ the reading さつ (千円札＝1000 Yen paper bill)... It also takes on the meaning of Playing Card with the reading of ふだ as in 花札 (Hanafuda cards) or トランプの札 ("trump" playing cards). For the tag meaning I like to think of wooden tags hung on hooks from trees... but for these other meanings I like to think of both paper money and playing cards as paper (tree) products with the ability to "hook you in" so to speak.

Paper Playing ふだ Label Card Ticket Money Tag