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Kanji Detail for 芹 - "celery, herb"
芹
- Meaning
芹 means "celery, herb."
Parsley - A perennial of the parsley family growing near water.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
parsley
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
celery
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Chinese celery
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
celery
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Stem is hollow. Leaves are compound. Alternate. Flowers are small and white. Best grown by water. (Book of Odes) "Thinking joyfully of the Pan River, picking its celery." A poem praising Duke Xi's ability to maintain the Pan Palace. Hence anciently, entering school was called 采芹 (picking celery). Also called 入泮 (entering the Pan).
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