Kanji Detail for 薹 - "flower stalk, sedge, rapeseed"

薹

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
薹 means "flower stalk, sedge, rapeseed."
1. Flower stalk - The flowering stem of vegetables like butterbur and chives.
2. Sedge - A perennial plant of the Cyperaceae family.
3. Rapeseed - A biennial plant of the Brassicaceae family.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

seed pod

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

Cyperus rotundus, nut grass

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

Carex dispalatha

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

sedge, grass; Cyperus rotundus

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

A plant name. Leaves are about three feet long. Flat. Long flower spikes form in summer. Leaves when sun-dried can be made into hats. | 蕓薹. A vegetable name. It is rapeseed. | The flower stalks that vegetable plants produce are commonly all called 臺.
Onyomi

dai(だい)

tai(たい)
Kunyomi

aburana

to.u(とう)
Strokes

20 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
flower stalk flowering stem vegetables like butterbur chives sedge perennial plant cyperaceae family rapeseed biennial