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Kanji Detail for 莩 - "thin membrane, thinness, starvation"
莩
- Meaning
莩 means "thin membrane, thinness, starvation."
Thin membrane - The thin skin inside a reed stem.
Thinness - A metaphor for something delicate.
Starvation - Death from hunger.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
membrane lining inside reed; very thin
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
membrane lining inside of reed
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
The membrane outside the sheath when a plant first sprouts. Such as saying 莩中. Also 葭莩 is the thin membrane inside reeds. It is what is used as flute membrane. Such as 葭莩之親 (the thinnest of relations). Meaning extremely thin relations. Appears in the "Book of Han." Now continues to be used as a term for relatives.
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