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Kanji Detail for 薺 - "shepherd's purse, caltrop"
薺
- Meaning
薺 means "shepherd's purse, caltrop."
Shepherd's purse - A biennial plant of the Brassicaceae family; one of the seven spring herbs.
Caltrop - An annual plant of the Zygophyllaceae family.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
water-chestnuts; caltrop
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
water-chestnuts; caltrop
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
see 薺菜|荠菜[ji4 cai4]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
water chestnut; water caltrop
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A vegetable plant. Leaves in the lower part are pinnately divided. Those in the upper part have notches. Used as vegetables when tender. When old, stems grow over a foot tall. Flowers have four petals. White in color. Fruit is flat and triangular. Contains fine seeds inside. | Withered trees. Originally written as 槁.
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