Keyword
wild rice
- Zizania latifolia
- Frequency
- #5523
- Strokes
- 11
Readings
gū
Mnemonic
艹 (grass) gives the meaning and 孤 the sound.
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Used in vocabulary
菰
Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白笋 (jiāobáisǔn), which is swollen by a smut fungus