Kanji Detail for 苡 - "plantain, job's tears"

苡

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
苡 means "plantain, job's tears."
1. Plantain - A perennial plant of the Plantaginaceae family (used in compound 芣苡).
2. Job's tears - An annual grass of the Poaceae family (used in compound 薏苡).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

adlay; plantain

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

barley

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

used in 芣苡[fu2 yi3]; see 薏苡[yi4 yi3]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

barley

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

芣苡. A grass name. Originally written as 苜. | 薏苡 (Job's tears). A grass name. Stem four to five feet tall. Leaves narrow and long. Has parallel veins. Fruit is oval. Its kernel is white. Colloquially called 薏米. Can be cooked as porridge or ground into flour. Also used in medicine.
Onyomi

i(い)

shi(し)

wa(わ)
Kunyomi
none
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
plantain perennial plant plantaginaceae family job tears annual grass poaceae