Word Meaning 桜切る馬鹿梅切らぬ馬鹿

さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか sakurakirubakaumekiranubaka

桜切る馬鹿梅切らぬ馬鹿 is read as さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか (sakurakirubakaumekiranubaka) and means only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees.

Meaning

English

only an idiot prunes cherry trees and only an idiot does not prune plum trees

Reading

Kana

さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか

Romaji

sakurakirubakaumekiranubaka

Writing Variants

桜切る馬鹿、梅切らぬ馬鹿 さくらきるばかうめきらぬばか sakurakirubakaumekiranubaka

Stroke Sequence

11 Characters • 75 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 5 Proverb ✓ Rank 113543 Priority R

Related Vocabulary

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someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana-to-kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer