菰
gū
#6,018 most
frequent character
Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1bai2sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi
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