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Kanji Detail for 萱 - "day-lily, thatch, comfort"
萱
- Meaning
萱 means "day-lily, thatch, comfort."
Day lily - A perennial of the lily family (also called "forget-me grass").
Thatch - A general term for plants used for thatching roofs.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
miscanthus reed
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
day-lily, Hemerocallis flava
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
orange day-lily (Hemerocallis flava)
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
day-lily, Hemerocallis fulva
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A plant name. Also called 忘憂 (forget worry). Also called 宜男 (suitable for boys). Leaves are slender and sword-shaped. Texture is soft. Red-yellow six-petaled flowers bloom in summer months. Flower stems and single-petaled flowers when sun-dried are edible. Called 金針菜 (golden needle vegetable). In ancient times written as ■. Commonly written as ■. The Book of Odes says "Where can I get 諼草. To plant it in the north." This is this flower. The north refers to the north hall. Where women reside. Therefore mothers are called 萱堂 (day lily hall) by extension.
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