菖

Information about character(s)

Radical: 艸
Radical Strokes: 6
Additional Strokes: 8
Total Strokes: 11

Pronunciation

Pinyin: chāng
Cantonese: coeng1
JapaneseKun: SHOUBU
JapaneseOn: SHOU
Korean: CHANG

Dictionary definitions

Unicode: iris, sweet flag, calamus

CE-Dict: see 菖蒲[chang1 pu2]

21 Century bidirectional dictionary: 1.a sweet flag; a calamus

康熙字典文字版 【申集上】【艸字部】菖
【唐韻】尺良切，音昌。【本草】菖蒲，蒲類之昌盛者。【呂氏春秋】冬至後五旬七日菖始生。菖者，百草之先，于是生者也。【南方草木狀】番禺㵎中生菖蒲，一寸九節。【劉勰·新論】菖蒲，去蚤、蝨而來蚰蜒。　又【集韻】通昌。【左傳·僖三十年】享有昌歜。
考證：〔【呂氏春秋】冬至後五旬，七日菖始生，菖者，百草之先，于是始耕。〕　謹照原文于是始耕改生者也。

CF-Dict: calamus

Han-De-Dict: > (u.E.)/Kalmus (Pflanze) (u.E.) (S)