山桜

Compound of 山(やま) (yama, “mountain”) + 桜(サクラ) (sakura, “cherry tree, Prunus serrulata”).

The sakura changes to zakura as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• (Tokyo) やまざくら [yàmázáꜜkùrà] (Nakadaka – [3])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠za̠kɯ̟ɾa̠]

山(やま)桜(ざくら) or 山桜(ヤマザクラ) • (yamazakura) 

1. (literal) a cherry tree blooming on a mountain; a wild cherry tree
   • c. 1226, Kin'yō Wakashū (book 9, poem 521; also Hyakunin Isshu, poem 66)

     もろともに哀(あは)れと思(おも)へ山(やま)桜(ざくら)花(はな)よりほかに知(し)る人(ひと)もなし

     morotomo ni aware to omoe yamazakura hana yori hoka ni shiru hito mo nashi

     (please add an English translation of this example)

2. Prunus jamasakura or Cerasus jamasakura, a species of cherry tree

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

山(やま)桜(ざくら) • (Yamazakura) 

1. a place name

• 山桜桃(ユスラウメ) (yusuraume), 山桜桃(ユスラ) (yusura)