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茸

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

downy

HSK 10

rōng

ジョウ、ニュ

きのこ、たけ、しげ.る

용

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

Components

艹 grass (top)+ 耳 ear =

茸 downy

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

耳 Phonetic component

ěr ear

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

茸

Regular

Modern

Chinese

茸 [róng]

confused; fluffy; luxuriant growth

Japanese

茸、蕈、菌きのこ、たけ、キノコ同音

noun usually kana mushroom

Example Sentences

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木の下にいくつかの野生のキノコを見つけた。

I found some wild mushrooms under the log.

Japanese Names

茸きのこ

Kinoko female given name

CHINESE WORDS (12)

毛茸茸 [máorōngrōng] #11,720

茸毛 [róngmáo] #25,947

鹿茸 [lùróng] #67,634

young deer antler prior to ossification (used in TCM)

松茸 [sōngróng] #44,190

matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan

参茸 [shēnróng] #48,919

ginseng and young deer antler (used in TCM)

参茸 [shēnróng] #48,919

ginseng and young deer antler (used in TCM)

姬松茸 [jīsōngróng]

himematsutake mushroom (Agaricus subrufescens or Agaricus blazei Murill)

蒙茸 [méngróng]

蒜茸 [suànróng]

蒜茸钳 [suànróngqián]

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JAPANESE WORDS (76)

⭐ 茸 [きのこ] #24,741

毒キノコ [どくキノコ] #45,542

⭐ 椎茸 [しいたけ] #46,753

shiitake mushroom (Lentinula edodes)

松茸 [まつたけ] #55,408

matsutake mushroom (Tricholoma matsutake)

キノコ雲 [キノコぐも] #86,819

mushroom cloud (from nuclear explosion, etc.)

舞茸 [まいたけ] #96,492

hen-of-the-woods (species of polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa)

キノコ狩り [きのこがり] #130,305

岩茸 [いわたけ] #134,259

rock tripe (edible lichen used as medication in Korea, China and Japan)

笑い茸 [わらいたけ] #160,146

Panaeolus papilionaceus (species of poisonous mushroom)

松茸御飯 [まつたけごはん] #181,216

rice cooked with matsutake

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KOREAN WORDS (1)