植物人

Traditional form:

植物人

Pinyin (reading):

zhíwùrén

Definitions:

• person in a vegetative state
• human vegetable

Characters:

• 植 - tree, plant; to grow
• 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
• 人 - man, person; people

Traditional characters:

• 植 - tree, plant; to grow
• 物 - thing, substance, matter; creature
• 人 - man, person; people