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Kanji Detail for 蓼 - "smartweed, hardship"
蓼
- Meaning
蓼 means "smartweed, hardship."
Smartweed - An annual plant of the Polygonaceae family.
Hardship - Suffering; difficulty.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
luxurious grass; a smartweed
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
smartweed, polygonum
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
polygonum; smartweed
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
knotweed, polygonum
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A tall and large appearance. The Book of Odes says "Tall and large is the motherwort." Jin dynasty's Wang Ai read poetry. When he reached "Alas, my parents, who gave birth to me with such toil," he would always shed tears. His disciples therefore omitted the 蓼莪 poem. Hence it continues to be used as a term for filial devotion.
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