Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Fagales Engler |
| family | Betulaceae S. F. Gray |
| subfamily | Coryloideae J. D. Hooker |
| genus | Carpinus L. - hornbeam |
| species | Carpinus cordata Blume - Sawa hornbeam |
| varietas | Carpinus cordata var. mollis (Rehder) W.C.Cheng ex C.Chen |