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蕨

jué
noun #38,762

Meanings

  1. 1 bracken; fern (especially Pteridium aquilinum)

Examples

春天村民上山采蕨菜。
Chūntiān cūnmín shàngshān cǎi juécài.
In spring the villagers go up the hills to pick fern shoots.
蕨的嫩芽可以炒成一道菜。
Jué de nènyá kěyǐ chǎo chéng yí dào cài.
The young curled fern fronds can be stir-fried as a dish.

Tips

usage
Usually 蕨菜 — the edible young fiddleheads of bracken, a common wild mountain vegetable. The curled shoot's resemblance to a small fist gave it the old name 拳菜 ('fist vegetable').

Components

radical
艹 cǎo
grass; plant
Top is the grass radical 艹, the standard marker for plant names — here a wild edible fern.
phonetic
厥 jué
sound element
Below the grass cap sits 厥, which gives the reading jué exactly — a clean phonetic.

Stroke Order

蕨 jué