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菰

Traditional form:

菰

Pinyin (reading):

gū

Definitions:

  • Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍/茭白笋 (jiāobáisǔn), which is swollen by a smut fungus
  • variant of 菇 (gū)

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