| 柳 | やなぎ, ようりゅう | willow (any tree of genus Salix); weeping willow (Salix babylonica) |
| 川柳 | せんりゅう | comic haiku |
| 青柳 | あおやぎ, あおやなぎ | green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis) |
| 花柳 | かりゅう | red-light district |
| 柳 | りゅう | Chinese "Willow" constellation (one of the 28 mansions) |
| 柳び | りゅうび | beautiful eyebrows |
| 柳刃包丁 | やなぎばぼうちょう | kitchen knife for sashimi |
| 花柳界 | かりゅうかい | red-light district, pleasure quarters, world of the geisha, demimonde |
| 花柳病 | かりゅうびょう | sexually transmitted disease, social disease |
| 蒲柳 | ほりゅう | purple willow, infirmity, delicate constitution |
