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Information about character(s)

Radical:
Radical Strokes: 6
Additional Strokes: 16
Total Strokes: 22

Pronunciation

Pinyin: xián, qián
Cantonese: cim4 zim1

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: name of a variety of grass, a kind of vegetable, a variety of nettle, urtica

康熙字典文字版 【申集上】【艸字部】 䕭
【唐韻】徐鹽切,音撏。【玉篇】菜也。【齊民要術】䕭菜,似䓠荃菜也。 又【類篇】五原之韭曰䕭。 又【集韻】慈鹽切,音潛。草名。【墨莊漫錄】川峽閒有一種惡草,羅生于野,土人呼爲䕭麻,其枝葉拂人肌肉卽成瘡疱,浸淫漬爛,久不能愈。【白居易詩】颶風千里黑,䕭草四時靑。○按《墨莊漫錄》本註音㻸,《正字通》引此訛㻸作瓚,因斷之曰讀䕭爲瓚者,俗音也,應音爛。此臆說無據。