淡巴菰 in English dan4 ba1 gu1 Meaning

Meanings

• tobacco (borrowed word) (old)

Pinyin

dan4 ba1 gu1

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

淡dan4insipid 巴ba1Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) 菰gu1Manchurian 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