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Kanji Detail for 艾 - "mugwort, moxa, elder, govern, reap"
艾
- Meaning
艾 means "mugwort, moxa, elder, govern, reap."
Mugwort - A perennial plant of the Asteraceae family.
Moxa - Dried mugwort leaves used for moxibustion.
Elder - An old person.
Govern - To manage.
Reap - To harvest.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
moxa; sagebrush; wormwood; mugwort
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
artemisia, mugwort
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Ai
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris; used in transliterations
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A grass name. Stem is white. Four to five feet tall. Leaves are elongated oval. Pinnately divided. Back covered with dense white hair. Blooms tiny flowers between summer and autumn. Light brown in color. Leaves dried and rolled into 艾絨 (moxa). Doctors burn it to treat illness. Called moxibustion. Also used for seal paste. | Beautiful. (Mencius) "Knowing to love beauty, one admires young beauties." | To stop. When something has not ended, it is called 未艾 (not yet finished). Seen in (Zuo Zhuan). Such as saying 方興未艾 (just rising, not yet finished).
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