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Kanji Detail for 苻 - "nightshade, reed skin"

  • Meaning

    苻 means "nightshade, reed skin."

    1. Nightshade - A perennial plant of the Solanaceae family.

    2. Reed skin - The thin membrane inside a reed stem.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    kudzu-like plant

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    Angelica anomala

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    Angelica anomala

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    a kind of herb; Angelica anomala

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

    A grass name. Stem grows like kudzu. Leaves round with hair. Seeds like earrings. Red, growing in clusters. Also called 鬼目草 (ghost eye grass). | A surname. The ruler of Former Qin, Pu Hong, changed his surname to Fu because of a prophecy. Seen in (Book of Jin). | 萑苻. A marsh name in Zheng during Spring and Autumn. (Zuo Zhuan) "Attacked the bandits of Huanfu and killed them all." Now calling bandit lairs 萑苻 is based on this. Also read 蒲.
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