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Kanji Detail for 薹 - "flower stalk, sedge, rapeseed"
薹
- Meaning
薹 means "flower stalk, sedge, rapeseed."
Flower stalk - The flowering stem of vegetables like butterbur and chives.
Sedge - A perennial plant of the Cyperaceae family.
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
- Kunyomi
- Strokes
- Radical
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