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蕨

jué
noun #38,762

Meanings

  1. 1 bracken; fern (especially Pteridium aquilinum)

Examples

HSK 7-9
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.
HSK 7-9
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