kind of lettuce

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

巨 sound component

  Sound component

  

large

Evolution

苣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
苣 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

kind of lettuce; lettuce, see 萵苣|莴苣

Most common words with 苣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

莴苣

lettuce (Lactuca sativa)

lettuce, see 萵苣|莴苣

菊苣

chicory

苦苣

endive

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4756th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82E3

Shuowen

“苣,束葦燒。从艸,巨聲。”


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