菰
gū
Pinyin
Definition
菰
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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[jiāo bái sǔn], which is swollen by a smut fungus
- (variant of 菇[gū]) mushroom
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- 1 arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)