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蕪

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

芜

🇨🇳

luxurious

HSK 10

Nature →Plants

wú

ブ、ム

かぶ、かぶら、あれる

무

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 無 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (蕪)

艹 grass (top)+ 無 nothing =

蕪 luxurious

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

無 Phonetic component

nothing

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Simplified (芜)

艹 grass (top)+ 无 negative =

芜 luxurious growth of weeds

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

无 Phonetic component

wú negative

negative, no, not

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

芜

Regular

Modern

Chinese

芜 / 蕪 [wú]

overgrown with weeds

Japanese

蕪、蕪菁 (rare) かぶ、かぶら、カブ、カブラ同音

noun usually kana turnip (Brassica rapa)

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (1)

ニンジンやカブは食用根菜です。

Carrots and turnips are edible roots.

Japanese Names

蕪かぶ

Kabu surname

蕪かぶら

Kabura surname

CHINESE WORDS (23)

荒芜 [huāngwú] #19,449

left to return to unchecked growth

芜湖 [Wúhú] #20,329

Wuhu prefecture level city in Anhui

芜菁 [wújīng] #36,012

莱芜 [Láiwú] #38,806

Laiwu prefecture-level city in Shandong

芜湖市 [Wúhúshì] #38,890

Wuhu prefecture level city in Anhui

莱芜市 [Láiwúshì] #48,127

Laiwu prefecture-level city in Shandong

芜杂 [wúzá] #51,334

芜湖县 [Wúhúxiàn] #61,465

Wuhu county in Wuhu 蕪湖|芜湖[Wúhú], Anhui

去芜存菁 [qùwúcúnjīng] #63,284

lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers

繁芜 [fánwú] #65,700

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JAPANESE WORDS (11)

蕪 [かぶ] #56,307

turnip (Brassica rapa)

蕪雑 [ぶざつ] #131,742

赤かぶ [あかかぶ] #135,557

荒蕪地 [こうぶち] #150,018

蕪菜 [かぶな]

turnip (Brassica rapa)

スウェーデン蕪 [スウェーデンかぶ]

rutabaga (Brassica napobrassica)

芽かぶ [めかぶ]

thick wakame leaves from near the stem

蕪汁 [かぶらじる]

turnip miso soup

蕪蒸し [かぶらむし]

steamed fish with grated turnip on top

蕪辞 [ぶじ]

coarse speech or writing

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KOREAN WORDS (1)

wilderness; wasteland