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菰

gū

Character

What 菰 means

1. Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as {茭白笋|jiāo bái sǔn}, which is swollen by a smut fungus
2. variant of {菇|gū}

Words containing 菰

• 茨菰cí guarrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)
• 淡巴菰dàn bā gūtobacco (loanword) (old)
• 香菰xiāng gūvariant of 香菇

Sounds the same

Read gū, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 估to estimate
• 姑paternal aunt; husband's sister; husband's mother (old)
• 孤lone; lonely
• 辜crime; sin
• 骨used in 骨碌碌; used in 骨碌; used in 骨朵
• 菇(bound form) mushroom
• 箍hoop; to bind with hoops
• 咕(onomatopoeia) for the sound of a bird, an empty stomach etc
• 沽to buy; to sell
• 呱used in 呱呱; Taiwan pr. wā
• 毂used in 毂辘
• 鸪partridge; Francolinus chinensis