name of a plant

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

及 sound component

  Sound component

  

extend

Evolution

芨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

name of a plant, the roots are used for various purposes

 

Bletilla hyacinthina (mucilaginous); Acronym for the Chinese Elder tree 菫草

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4928th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+82A8

Shuowen

“芨,堇艸也。从艸,及聲。讀若急。”


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