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Kanji Detail for 菰 - "wild rice"
菰
- Meaning
菰 means "wild rice."
Wild rice - A perennial grass of the Poaceae family.
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The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
reed used for matting
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
wild rice; Zizania latifolia
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus; variant of 菇[gu1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
wild rice; Zizania latifolia
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Grows in ponds and marshes. Leaves are like cattails and reeds. In spring and autumn, the central stem produces a white stalk called 菰菜. Commonly called 茭白 (wild rice stem). In autumn | Fungal plants. Such as 蘑菰 (mushroom) and the like. Also written as 菇.
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