Chinese Character Wiki

葽

yāo

type of grain

Evolution

葽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
葽 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Definitions

葽  

yāo

type of grain, Polygala japonica; Polygala japonica; lush (grass)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+847D

Shuowen

“葽，艸也。从艸，要聲。《詩》曰：‘四月秀葽。’劉向說：此味苦，苦葽也。”


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