kind of grasses

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

其 sound component

  Sound component

  

its, his, (3p possessive)

Evolution

萁 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
萁 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
萁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萁 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
萁 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kind of grasses; stalks of pulse

Most common words with 萁
Freq.
Word
Meaning

stalks of pulse

煮豆燃萁

burning beanstalks to cook the beans (idiom); to cause internecine strife