wisteria
藤 centers on the wisteria plant, a climbing vine known for its cascading purple flowers.
藤 combines the grass radical 艹 with 滕, which likely contributes the sound and may relate to climbing or rising, fitting a vine. The exact historical development of 滕 is uncertain.
The top grass radical 艹 suggests a plant, and the bottom 滕 looks like a tangle of vines climbing upward. Picture wisteria vines twisting around a trellis.
For トウ, imagine a wisteria vine growing all the way to the top of a tall tower: tower -> トウ, and the vine reaches the top.
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
conflict; complication; troubles; discord
climbing trees; liana
amateur; novice; layman
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wisteria trellis; wisteria arbor (arbour); wisteria pergola
wisteria flower
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Itochu Fuel Corporation
Itō style; customary order of setting up the board in which pawns are placed before the rook and bishop
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Satohide Corporation
Katou Kisen
Millettia japonica (species of flowering plant)
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Order of the Precious Crown, Wistaria
silky wisteria (Wisteria brachybotrys)
Kudō-kai (yakuza group)
Chinese indigo (Indigofera decora); summer wisteria
Chinese wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)