jūn, jùn
mushroom
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 菌
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
germ | ||
germ | ||
bacillus (any rod-shaped bacteria) | ||
germs | ||
mold |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]runʔ | gwinX | jùn | mushroom |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 6.8717% of movies
1925th most common character in movies
1733rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+83CC |
Shuowen | “菌,地蕈也。从艸,囷聲。” |
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