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Kanji Detail for 荼 - "sow thistle, suffering, reed plume, cogon plume, weed"
荼
- Meaning
荼 means "sow thistle, suffering, reed plume, cogon plume, weed."
Sow thistle - A biennial plant of the Asteraceae family.
Suffering - Pain; harm.
Reed plume - The feathery head of a reed.
Cogon plume - The plume of cogon grass.
Weed - Wild grass.
Tea - The tea plant.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
a weed
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
thistle, sowthistle; bitter
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
thistle; common sowthistle (Sonchus oleraceus); bitter (taste); cruel; flowering grass in profusion
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a bitter vegetable
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A bitter vegetable. Leaves are pinnately divided. Stem is hollow. When broken, white sap flows out tasting bitter. Yellow flowers bloom between spring and summer. | Cogon grass and similar plants that bloom white flowers. Their spikes cluster together and scatter in the wind. Such as describing the beauty and grandeur of military appearance as "like fire, like scattered white." | Harm or poison. Such as saying 荼毒生靈 (causing suffering to the people). | 荼陵. A county name. Belongs to Hunan.
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