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Meaning of 芦

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(Trad.: 蘆)
Pinyin:
English Definition: rush; reed; Phragmites communis
Chinese Definition:
①芦菔,似芜菁。今作萝卜。[合]芦萉(莱菔的别名。又名萝卜)。
②芦苇,多年生草本植物,生在浅水里;茎中空,可以编帘子,盖屋顶。又名“苇子”。[合]芦汀(生长着芦草的水边);芦田(清代称在长江等河湖沿岸,只适合种植芦苇的低洼地);芦衣(用芦花为絮所缝制的衣服);芦灰(芦苇烧成的灰。相传女娲氏堆积芦灰以防止泛滥的洪水)。
Total strokes: 7; Radical:
Pictophonetic: indicates the sound; (grass) conveys the meaning.
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Example Words
芦苇 wěi reed
芦笋 sǔn asparagus
芦笙 shēng reed-pipe wind instrument
芦席 reed mat
芦荟 huì aloe vera
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Example Sentences
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Rural dweller: The reed bunting is one of the species which tend to avoid cities
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Species which tend to avoid cities include pied flycathers, reed bunting and whitethroat.
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The Chicago team has spent the past three years preparing and studying the fossil, which was lodged in a block of sediment removed from the Lujiatun lake beds in northeast China.
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Only a solitary cracked-voiced reed-sparrow greeted her from the bushes by the river, in a sad, machine-made tone, resembling that of a past friend whose friendship she had outworn.