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蒟

jǔ
noun #68,908

Meanings

  1. 1 the betel pepper plant (archaic)
  2. 2 the konjac plant (in 蒟蒻)

Examples

HSK 7-9
蒟蒻果冻是用蒟蒻的块茎做的。
Jǔruò guǒdòng shì yòng jǔruò de kuàijīng zuò de.
Konjac jelly is made from the starchy corm of the konjac plant.

Tips

history
Rare on its own in modern Chinese. It appears in 蒟酱 (a betel-pepper relish from old southwestern records) and in 蒟蒻, the plant whose corm gives the konjac jelly sold today.

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
The grass radical 艹 marks this as a plant name - here a betel pepper and, in compounds, the konjac plant.
phonetic
竘 qǔ
phonetic element
The lower part is the phonetic, built on 句; its reading lands on jǔ, the same 句-family seen in 拘 and 矩.

Stroke Order

蒟 jǔ