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Pinyin (reading):

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  • 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 (jiāobāisun), which is swollen by a smut fungus
  • (variant of 菇 (gū)) mushroom

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