菰 gū gu

wild rice; Zizania latifolia

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DEFINITIONS

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

STROKES

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WORDS

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]
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