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鳞茎

lín jīng

2-character word Traditional 鱗莖

What 鳞茎 means

1. (botany) bulb

The characters in 鳞茎

• 鳞línscales (of fish, snakes etc)
• 茎jīngstalk; stem

Sounds the same

Read lín jīng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 麟经another name for the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read lín jīng correctly.
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