betel pepper

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

竘 sound component

  Sound component

  

Evolution

蒟 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
蒟 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蒟 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

betel pepper; Amorphophallus konjac; betel