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分蘖

fēn niè

2-character word

What 分蘖 means

1. to tiller; to produce secondary shoots (in cereal crops)
2. tiller; secondary shoot emerging from the base of a plant (e.g. rice, wheat)

The characters in 分蘖

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 蘖niènew shoot growing from cut branch or stump

Sounds the same

Read fēn niè, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 分櫱variant of 分蘖