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麻黄
má​huáng

ephedra

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
麻黄 麻黃 má​huáng
ephedra
A family of perennial shrubs with slender, jointed stems and scale-like leaves, used in traditional medicine; the stems are the source of the alkaloid ephedrine.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.210 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.17 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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