ǒu

lotus root

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

耦 sound component

  Sound component

ǒu

  

plow side by side

Definitions

 

ǒu

lotus root; root of lotus

Most common words with 藕
Freq.
Word
Meaning

root of lotus

莲藕

lotus root

藕断丝连

lit. lotus roots may break, but the fiber remains joined (idiom); lovers part, but still long for one another

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.ŋˤ(r)oʔ

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ǒu

lotus root


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3920th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Unicode

U+85D5


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