茴 huí fennel Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 回 represents the sound. Components 艹 艹 Meaning component cao, cǎo grass 艹 is a component form of 艸. 回 回 Sound component huí return Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangɡuːl Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang