菰 in English gu1 Meaning

Meanings

• Manchurian 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
• (variant of 菇[gu1]) mushroom

Pinyin

gu1

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

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