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莴

萵
wō
noun #73,031

Meanings

  1. 1 lettuce

Examples

今晚我们炒盘莴笋吧。
Jīnwǎn wǒmen chǎo pán wōsǔn ba.
Tonight let's stir-fry some celtuce.
这道沙拉用了新鲜的莴苣。
Zhè dào shālā yòng le xīnxiān de wōjù.
The salad uses fresh lettuce.

Tips

usage
莴 is bound and appears in two vegetable names: 莴苣 (lettuce) and 莴笋 (celtuce / stem lettuce), a common stir-fry vegetable in China.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical sitting as a cap on top. It marks the character as a plant — here a leafy vegetable. Almost all vegetable and herb names carry this top element.
phonetic
呙 guō
phonetic component
Provides the sound. The reading has shifted away from guō to wō, so it now works only as a loose pronunciation marker for this plant name.

Stroke Order

莴 wō