In modern Japanese, "sakaki" is written with a doubly exceptional logograph. It is an ideograph (in the proper sense of 'logograph representing an idea' rather than loosely 'Chinese character; logograph') and is a "kokuji" 'Japanese Chinese logograph.' Ideograms and "kokuji" are two of the rarest logographic types, each constituting a small percentage of a typical written Japanese sample. First, the idea of "sakaki" is expressed with a melding of "boku" or "ki" 'tree' and "shin" or "kami" 'god; divine, sacred' "Shinto" ; comparable to a graphic fusion of the word "shinboku" 'sacred tree.' Second, the "sakaki" ideograph is a "kokuji" 'national Japanese logograph' rather than a usual "kanji" 'Chinese logograph' borrowing. "Kokuji" often denote Japanese plants and animals not native to China, and thus not normally written with Chinese logographs. (1995:11)