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Kanji Detail for 茄 - "eggplant"

茄

  • Meaning

    茄 means "eggplant." Also associated with lotus stem.

    1. Lotus stem - The stem of the lotus plant.

    2. Eggplant - A vegetable of the nightshade family.

  • Words using 茄

    • 茄子 なす Listen eggplant (Solanum melongena); aubergine

  • Tattoo check: 茄

    • Verified meaning: eggplant
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Also carries these associations: lotus stem

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    eggplant

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    eggplant

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾|夹[jia2] is more common

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    eggplant

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

    A vegetable plant. Also called 落蘇. Both flowers and fruit are purple. Fruit shape in the north is mostly oblate. In the south mostly oval. Or round.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    ka(カ) カ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    8 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    艸 艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)

  • Related Keywords

    lotus stem eggplant aubergine vegetable plant nightshade cooking purple

Sentences including 茄

  • The eggplant is a vegetable.

  • You don't get eggplants from a gourd vine.

  • Today I am having eggplant for lunch.

  • My favorite vegetable is eggplant.

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