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Kanji Detail for 薇 - "vetch, rose, royal fern"
薇
- Meaning
薇 means "vetch, rose, royal fern."
Vetch - A biennial plant of the Fabaceae family.
Rose - A deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae family (used in compound 薔薇).
Royal fern - A perennial fern of the Osmundaceae family (Japanese usage).
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
an edible fern
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
Osmunda regalis, a species of fern; Taiwan pr. [wei2]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
a kind of fern; Osmunda regalis
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A cryptogamic plant. Leaves are pinnately compound leaves. The tip of the stem curls like a spiral. When leaves first emerge tender, they can be eaten as vegetables. Bo Yi and Shu Qi hid in Shouyang Mountain and ate 薇. This is the meaning. | 紫薇 (crape myrtle). A tree name. Stems and trunks are smooth. Leaves are elliptical. Flowers come in red and purple colors. Begin blooming in summer. End in autumn. Also called 百日紅 (hundred-day red). During Tang times it was planted at the Central Secretariat. During the Kaiyuan period, the Central Secretariat was called the Purple Myrtle Province. Later, key government positions were called 薇省. Ming dynasty changed the traveling Central Secretariat to Provincial Administration Commission. The commission was called 薇垣. Those with white flowers are also called 白薇. | 薔薇 (rose). See "薔" for details.
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