Kanji Detail for 菁 - "turnip, chive flower, water plant, verdant"

菁

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
菁 means "turnip, chive flower, water plant, verdant."
1. Turnip - A root vegetable.
2. Chive flower - The flower of a chive plant.
3. Water plant - An aquatic plant.
4. Verdant - For plants to grow luxuriantly (used in compound 菁菁).
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

turnip

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

flower of leek family; turnip

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

leek flower; lush; luxuriant

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

turnip; a flower of the leek family

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

蕪菁 (turnip). A vegetable plant. Also called 蔓菁. Commonly called 大頭菜 (big head vegetable). Leaves are large. Roughly spoon-shaped. Flowers are yellow. Root is fleshy and oblate. Eaten as food. Fruit forms into long pods. | 菁菁. The appearance of flourishing flowers and leaves. Therefore the essence of things is also called 菁華 (quintessence).
Onyomi

sei(せい)

shoh(しょう)
Kunyomi

hanayaka

kabu(かぶ)

kaburana
Strokes

14 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
turnip root vegetable chive flower plant water aquatic verdant plants grow luxuriantly