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苋菜
xiàn​cài

amaranth

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
苋菜 莧菜 xiàn​cài
amaranth
An edible leafy vegetable often called Chinese spinach; a plant with long stems and oval leaves that may be purple or green.

Frequency

Written text
0.332 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 棵 kē

Same as

  • 荇菜 xìng​cài
  • 凫葵 fú​kuí
  • 莕菜 xìng​cài

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)