noun

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 薜荔, the creeping fig vine (classical)

Examples

薜荔
Bìlì pá mǎn le jiù qiáng.
Creeping fig climbs all over the old wall.

Tips

history
has no standalone modern use; it survives chiefly in 薜荔 ('creeping fig'), a vine made famous by the 《楚辞》 imagery of mountain spirits. The grass radical marks the plant; supplies the sound.
register
Literary and archaic. Outside the plant name 薜荔 and old poetry, is not encountered.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
is the grass radical, the top form of . It marks as a plant, here the climbing vine 薜荔.
phonetic
phonetic element
supplies the sound for , with the reading drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

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