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茻

mǎng

Character

What 茻 means

1. archaicovergrown vegetation; dense growth of grass
2. (neologism, attested by 2021) vegan

Sounds the same

Read mǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 莽(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish…
• 蟒python
• 漭vast; expansive (of water)
• 蠎old variant of 蟒

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