菰

gū

ㄍㄨ

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1Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus

2variant of 菇[gu1]

Etymology

pictophonetic · grass

Radical

艹 · grass, weed, plant, herb

Composition

⿱艹孤

Writing

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