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Kanji Detail for 菲 - "turnip-like vegetable, thin, sandal, lush, fragrant"
菲
- Meaning
菲 means "turnip-like vegetable, thin, sandal, lush, fragrant."
Turnip-like vegetable - Name of a vegetable similar to turnip.
Thin - Meager; humble.
Sandal - Straw footwear.
Lush - For plants to grow thickly.
Fragrant - Sweet-smelling.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
thin; inferior
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
fragrant, luxuriant; the Philippines
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
abbr. for the Philippines 菲律賓|菲律宾[Fei1 lu:4 bin1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
fragrant; rich, luxuriant; the Philippines
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable name. The Book of Odes says "Picking turnips, picking radishes." | Thin or meager. The Analects says "Frugal in food and drink." Nowadays calling a small gift 菲敬 (humble offering). | Fragrant. Such as saying 芳菲時節 (fragrant season). A metaphor for spring when flowers and trees flourish.
- Onyomi
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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