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How do you read 石榴 in Japanese?
Red jewels inside a split fruit.
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A ripe fruit filled with red arils. Three hiragana beginning with za.
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石 beside a tree radical and 留
tree radical beside 留 fruit kanji
fruit with red arils starting with 石
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石: 5 strokes; radical 石 (stone). 榴: 14 strokes; radical 木 (tree). Distinguish informal descriptions of the shape from the dictionary radical.
石5 strokes / radical: 石 (stone)
榴14 strokes / radical: 木 (tree)
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The answer is
ざくろ
zakuro
石榴
Understand the meaning
English translationPomegranate
Pomegranate: both the tree and its fruit, which contains many red arils and may split open as it ripens.
See it in a sentence
庭で採れた石榴を開くと、赤い粒が光っていた。Opening a pomegranate from the garden revealed shining red arils.
A way to remember
Read the whole spelling zakuro. 柘榴 is another spelling.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 石榴
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Describe the outside and the inside
石榴が裂ける focuses on the fruit splitting; 石榴の粒 brings attention inside. Follow the verbs and nouns as the description moves from the whole fruit to its small arils.
例：皿の上に石榴の粒を並べると、窓からの光を受けて赤く透けた。
The pomegranate arils on the plate glowed translucent red in the window light.
Do not infer the meaning from 石 alone
石榴 is a plant and fruit name, not a kind of stone. Reading the spelling as a whole avoids a misleading character-by-character interpretation.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 石榴
Explanation checked on 2026-10-25. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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