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Kanji Detail for 茆 - "water shield, sedge"
茆
- Meaning
茆 means "water shield, sedge."
Water shield - A perennial aquatic plant of the Nymphaeaceae family.
Sedge - A general term for perennial grasses like reeds and rushes.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
garden; farm; yard
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
species of grass, water mallows
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
variant of 茅[mao2]; thatch
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
water mallow
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Brasenia. See "蓴" for details. Also read like 茅. See (Rites of Zhou) commentary on 茆菹. Hence colloquially interchangeable with 茅. Such as 茅屋 (thatched house), 茅舍 (thatched cottage), etc. Also sometimes written as 茆 in poetry.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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