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Kanji Detail for 萍 - "duckweed"

  • Meaning

    萍 means "duckweed."

    1. Duckweed - A perennial aquatic plant of the Lemnaceae family.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    floating plants

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    duckweed; wandering, traveling

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    duckweed

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    duckweed; to travel, to wander

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

    A type of aquatic plant. Floats on the surface of ponds and marshes. Also called 浮萍 (duckweed). Body is flat. Both top and bottom are green. Has one root fiber hanging down. Another variety with green top and purple back and many root fibers is commonly called 紫背浮萍 (purple-backed duckweed). Its original name is 薸.
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