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Kanji Detail for 芋 - "potato, root vegetable"
芋
- Meaning
芋 means "potato, root vegetable."
Potato - Especially taro; tuber vegetables.
Taro - A starchy root vegetable.
Tuber - An underground stem or root.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
potato
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
taro
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
taro; Colocasia antiquorum; Colocasia esculenta
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
taro
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Grown in paddy fields. Leaves resemble lotus leaves but longer. Underground stem forms tubers. Edible. The curved one coming from the center is called 芋頭 (taro). Those attached around it are called 芋子 (taro corms).
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