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槐 [huái] 1. Deciduous tree. The wood can be used for construction and making furniture. The flower buds can be used as a yellow dye. - ***Example:*** Huai fire (using huai wood to make fire). Huai sequence. Huai sophora (a. During the Zhou Dynasty in China, three huai trees and nine thorns were planted, where nobles would sit beneath them; hence "huai thorn" refers to the three public officials or their positions; b. Refers to a place for hearing lawsuits, also called "thorn huai"). Huai tripod (metaphorically referring to the three public officials). 2. A surname. 3. [Main meaning]: A type of wood. Huai tree. - ***Character Formation:*** Phonetic-character; composed of the character for wood and a phonetic component related to ghost. - ***Extended Meaning:*** - 1. Same as the main meaning (Japanese pagoda tree). An ornamental deciduous tree (Sophora japonica) with dark green compound leaves and yellowish-white flowers on a conical flower spike. - ***Example:*** Such as: hairy-leaved huai; dragon-claw huai; huai sequence (summer); huai yellow season (the time of autumn examinations during the imperial examination era). - 2. General term for huai-related plants (sophora; pagoda tree). - ***Example:*** Such as: white flower gray-haired huai; soft-branch huai.