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Kanji Detail for 蕪 - "turnip"
蕪
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Meaning
蕪 means "turnip." Also associated with overgrown, wasteland.
Turnip - A root vegetable.
Overgrown - Wild with weeds; untended.
Wasteland - Uncultivated land.
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Tattoo check: 蕪
- Verified meaning: turnip
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Used in real Japanese given names (read かぶ, かぶら)
- Also carries these associations: overgrown, wasteland
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 蕪
Surnames 蕪(かぶ)
蕪(かぶら)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
turnip
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
luxurious growth of weeds
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
overgrown with weeds
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
weeds; overgrowth
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
Waste or barren. Overgrown weeds without cultivation is called 蕪. Such as 蕪城 (ruined city). Meaning a desolate city. | All things that are disordered are called 蕪. Such as writing that is 蕪雜 (jumbled). | 蕪菁. A vegetable name. See "菁" for details.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
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