Chinese Character Wiki

菰

gū

wild rice

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

孤 sound component

孤  Sound component

gū

  

orphan

Evolution

菰 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
菰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

菰  

gū

wild rice; Zizania latifolia; Manchurian 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[jiāo​bái​sǔn], which is swollen by a smut fungus; (variant of 菇[gū]) mushroom

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6129th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83F0


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