water-chestnuts

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

齊 sound component

  Sound component

  

even, uniform

Evolution

薺 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
薺 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薺 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

water-chestnuts; caltrop; see 薺菜|荠菜[jì​cài]

() 

water chestnut

Most common words with 薺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

荠菜

shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)

荸荠

Chinese water chestnut

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*dzˤ[ə]jʔ

dzejX

Capsella bursa-pastoris


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5681st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+85BA

Shuowen

“薺,蒺棃也。从艸,齊聲。《詩》曰:‘牆有薺。’”


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