luxurious growth of weeds

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

無 sound component

  Sound component

  

negative

Evolution

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

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蕪 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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luxurious growth of weeds; overgrown with weeds

Most common words with 蕪
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荒芜

overgrown

芜湖

Wuhu prefecture level city in Anhui

overgrown with weeds

芜菁

turnip

莱芜

Laiwu prefecture-level city in Shandong

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m(r)a

mju

overgrown with weeds


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3239th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+856A

Shuowen

“蕪,薉也。从艸,無聲。”


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