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Kanji Detail for 蒿 - "mugwort, steam, exhaust"

  • Meaning

    蒿 means "mugwort, steam, exhaust."

    1. Mugwort - A perennial plant of the Asteraceae family.

    2. Steam - For vapor to rise.

    3. Exhaust - To be depleted; to be worn out.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    mugwort

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    mugwort, artemisia; give off

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    celery wormwood (Artemisia carvifolia); to give off; to weed

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    mugwort, wormwood, Artemisia; to give off a scent

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

    A plant name. Of the mugwort type. Includes 青蒿 (sweet wormwood), 牡蒿 (mugwort), 白蒿 (white mugwort), 茵陳蒿 (virgate wormwood), etc. 青蒿 and 茵陳蒿 have finely divided leaves like threads. Flowers are yellowish-green. 牡蒿 has broad leaves with notches. 白蒿 has pinnately deeply divided leaves. Back is densely covered with grayish-white hair. Flowers are all brown and small. All four are used medicinally. | Sorrow. Such as saying 蒿目 (troubled gaze). Meaning worrying about the times. Based on the Zhuangzi. 蒿 easily catches dust. A metaphor for getting something in one's eye. | 蒿里. A funeral song. Meaning when a person dies they return to the 蒿里 (land of the dead). Originally written as 薧.
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