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菀

wǎn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 紫菀) aster, a medicinal flower

Examples

HSK 5
秋天花园里开着紫菀。
Qiūtiān huāyuán lǐ kāi zhe zǐwǎn.
Asters bloom in the garden in autumn.
HSK 7-9
紫菀的根可以入药止咳。
Zǐwǎn de gēn kěyǐ rù yào zhǐké.
The root of the aster is used in cough medicine.

Tips

usage
In modern use this character appears almost only in 紫菀 (aster), whose dried root is a cough-relieving herb. An old literary reading 菀 means 'luxuriant growth' but is confined to classical poetry.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical 艹 on top marks 菀 as a plant - here a flowering herb. It belongs to the wide grass-radical family of medicinal plant names.
phonetic
宛 wǎn
winding; as if
Below the cap, 宛 supplies the sound wǎn directly. The same phonetic gives the reading in 婉 'graceful' and 碗 'bowl'.

Stroke Order

菀 wǎn