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Kanji Detail for 蓀 - "fragrant herb, iris"
蓀
- Meaning
蓀 means "fragrant herb, iris."
Fragrant herb - Name of a fragrant grass.
Iris - A perennial plant of the Iridaceae family (used in compound 渓蓀).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
aromatic grass; iris; flower
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
aromatic grass; iris, flower
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
fragrant grass
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A fragrant herb. Also called 荃. Ancient literary works often used them as a compound phrase. Actually they are the same thing. In the Materia Medica, 石菖蒲 is also called 溪蓀. What ancient people called fragrant herbs should refer to this. What botany today calls 溪蓀, commonly called 蝴蝶花 (iris), is further from the meaning of fragrant herb.
- Onyomi
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- Strokes
- Radical
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