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Kanji Detail for 葛 - "kudzu, vine, tangle"
葛
- Meaning
葛 means "kudzu, vine, tangle."
Kudzu - A climbing vine plant.
Arrowroot - A starchy plant used in cooking.
Tangle - To become intertwined or complicated.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
arrowroot; kudzu
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
edible bean; surname
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
surname Ge
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
an edible bean; vine; surname
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A plant name. Stems are slender and vine-like. Leaves are compound. Flowers are purple-red. Fruit forms pods. Root is purple outside and white inside. Used in medicine. Can also make kudzu powder. The fiber of the stem can be woven into kudzu cloth. In ancient times, summer cloth was mostly made from this. Therefore summer clothes are also called 葛. Since kudzu vines tangle together, affairs that are complicated and hard to sort out are called 糾葛 (entanglement), 瓜葛 (connection), 膠葛 (sticky entanglement).
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