菰

gūdictionary entry

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[jiāo bái sǔn], which is swollen by a smut fungus / variant of 菇[gū]

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菰 菰 [gu1] /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[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus/variant of 菇[gu1]/

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