Chinese Character 菰 Meanings and components.

Form

菰

Meaning

菰 meaning[3] in English

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.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 菰 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and lone (孤)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with TNDO

How to write 菰

To write菰gu1Manchurian wild … you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 孤gu1lone arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 孤 = 菰

菰 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 菰 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 菰, looks as follow:

菰
Pinyin:gu1 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: 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
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
孤
Pinyin:gu1 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Lone . Lonely
子
Pinyin:zi5
Meaning[3]: Son . Child . Seed . Egg . Small Thing . 1st Earthly Branch: 11 P.M.-1 A.M., Midnight, 11th Solar Month (7th December To 5th January), Year Of The Rat . Viscount, Fourth Of Five Orders Of Nobility 五等爵位[Wu3 Deng3 Jue2 Wei4] . Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 0° (North)
瓜
Pinyin:gua1
Meaning[3]: Melon . Gourd . Squash

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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