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mushrooms

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 姑 represents the sound.

Components

艹
艹 Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

姑
姑 Sound component
gū, gu father's sister

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartkumə.kˤamushroom

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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart