蕖 (qú): (used in 芙蕖) the lotus flower

Meanings

满池芙蕖，在夏风里清丽动人。

Mǎn chí fú qú, zài xià fēng li qīnglì dòngrén.

Lotus flowers fill the pond, fresh and graceful in the summer breeze.

history

蕖 is not used on its own. It appears almost only in the elegant literary name 芙蕖 (lotus), a poetic synonym for 荷花. The phonetic is 渠.

register

Literary only, alive inside one poetic compound; the everyday word for lotus is 荷花.

radical

艹 cǎo

grass; plant

The grass radical 艹 marks the meaning: 蕖 is a flowering water plant, the lotus.

phonetic

渠 qú

ditch; canal

渠 supplies the sound qú and faintly suits the watery setting of the lotus. The same phonetic appears in 璩 (a surname).

蕖 qú