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Kanji Detail for 菊 - "chrysanthemum, flower, noble"
菊
- Meaning
菊 means "chrysanthemum, flower, noble."
Chrysanthemum - A perennial plant of the chrysanthemum family.
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The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
chrysanthemum
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
chrysanthemum
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
(bound form) chrysanthemum
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
chrysanthemum
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A flower name. Anciently written as 鞠 (chrysanthemum). Stem is slightly woody. Leaves have notches. Blooms in late autumn. Varieties are extremely numerous. Li Shizhen said there are nine hundred varieties. Tao Hongjing distinguished two types. Those with purple stems, fragrant aroma, and sweet taste are true chrysanthemums. Those with green stems that smell like mugwort, taste bitter and are inedible are called 苦薏. That is wild chrysanthemum.
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