莼

See also: 蒓

莼 U+83BC, 莼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83BC ← 莻 [U+83BB] CJK Unified Ideographs 莽 → [U+83BD]

Translingual

Traditional	蒓
Simplified	莼
Japanese	蓴
Korean	蓴

Han character

莼 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿女一山 (TVMU), composition ⿱艹纯)

1. An edible water plant of species Brasenia screberi; watershield.

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1036, character 40
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3227, character 4
• Unihan data for U+83BC

Chinese

Glyph origin

Simplified from 蒓 (糸 → 纟)

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 莼 – see 蒓 (“Brasenia schreberi”). (This character is the simplified form of 蒓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.