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Kanji Detail for 莎 - "nut grass"
莎
- Meaning
莎 means "nut grass."
Nut grass - A perennial plant of the Cyperaceae family.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
sedge
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a kind of sedge grass that used to be woven into raincoats
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A plant name. Grows in fields and wilderness. Especially abundant by the seashore. Has underground stems. Hard leaves grow in clusters in spring. Color is dark green. Flowers bloom in summer months. Also brownish in color. The tuber is called 香附子 (nutgrass). Used medicinally. | 莎雞. An insect name. It is the 絡緯 (katydid).
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