piǎo

membrane lining inside of reed

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

grass

孚 sound component

  Sound component

  

captive

Evolution

莩 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莩 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

membrane lining inside of reed; membrane lining inside a cylindrical stem; culm

 

piǎo

used for piǎo, to die of starvation

Most common words with 莩
Freq.
Word
Meaning

culm

饿莩遍野

starving people everywhere (idiom); a state of famine

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5953rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+83A9

Shuowen

“莩,艸也。从艸,孚聲。”


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