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荇
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

a water plant

HSK 10
Nature →Plants
xìng
コウ、ギョウ
はなじゅんさい
Components
艹 grass (top)+ 行 go/row =
荇 a water plant
艹 Meaning component
cao grass (top)
grass
plant
行 Phonetic component
xíng go/row
go
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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 Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
荇
Regular
Modern
Chinese
荇 [xìng]
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (2)
荇菜 [xìng​cài] #63,974
yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)
青荇 [qīng​xìng]
waterlily