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Kanji Detail for 薤 - "scallion"
薤
- Meaning
薤 means "scallion."
Scallion - A perennial plant of the Liliaceae family; rakkyo.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
scallion; shallot
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
Allium bakeri; shallots, scallion
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Allium bakeri; shallot; scallion
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
shallots, scallions; Allium bakeri
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Shaped like leek but hollow inside. Small flowers bloom in summer. Color is purple. Bulbs are like small garlic. Called 薤白 (Chinese onion). | 薤露. A funeral song name. Meaning human life ends easily like dew on 薤. Today often used for the deceased. Also a type of calligraphy. In the Shang dynasty, seal script was made in the shape of inverted 薤. Called 薤葉書 (Chinese onion leaf script). Han Yu's poem says "A lifetime of ten thousand pieces, gold Chinese onion dripping jade." This is the meaning.
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