| 菰 | |||
| wild rice; Zizania latifolia | |||
| Radical | 䒑艸艹艹艹 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | gū | Cantonese reading | gu1 |
| Japanese on reading | ko | Japanese kun reading | makomo |
| Korean reading | ko | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 菇 | ||
| 菰 | |||
| wild rice; Zizania latifolia | |||
| Radical | 䒑艸艹艹艹 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 8 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | gū | Cantonese reading | gu1 |
| Japanese on reading | ko | Japanese kun reading | makomo |
| Korean reading | ko | Vietnamese reading | |
| Semantic Variant(s) | 菇 | ||
| 菰 | [ gū ] 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[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus, (variant of 菇[gu1]) mushroom |
| ⇒ 淡巴菰 | [ dàn bā gū ] tobacco (loanword) (old) |
| ⇒ 茨菰 | [ cí gu ] arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant) |
| ⇒ 香菰 | [ xiāng gū ] variant of 香菇[xiang1 gu1] |