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薌
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷
芗
🇨🇳

fragrant smell of grain

HSK 10
Nature →Plants →Grasses
xiāng
キョウ、コウ
こくもつ
Components
Traditional (薌)
艹 grass (top)+ 鄉 countryside =
薌 fragrant smell of grain
艹 Meaning component
cao grass (top)
grass
herb
鄉 Phonetic component
countryside
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Simplified (芗)
艹 grass (top)+ 乡 hometown =
芗 fragrant smell of grain
艹 Meaning component
cao grass (top)
grass
herb
乡 Phonetic component
xiāng hometown
country
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Notes
Similar Characters
春 springtime甍 rafters supporting roof盖 hide (simp)着 arrive/wear繭 cocoon (trad/jp)艺 art (simp)艻 sweet basil艽 a root艾 Chinese mugwort艿 taro节 knot (simp)芄 Metaplexis stauntoni芊 exuberant and vigorous芋 taro芍 peony芎 a kind of herb芏 Cyperus malaccensis芑 white millet芒 mango芗 fragrant smell of grain (simp)
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
芗
Regular
Modern
Chinese
芗 / 薌 [xiāng]
aromatic herb used for seasoning; variant of 香[xiāng]
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (3)
芗剧 [Xiāng​jù] #50,661
variety of opera popular in southern Fujian and Taiwan
芗城区 [Xiāng​chéng​qū] #54,283
Xiangcheng district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市[Zhāng​zhōu​shì], Fujian
芗城 [Xiāng​chéng]
Xiangcheng district of Zhangzhou city 漳州市[Zhāng​zhōu​shì], Fujian