Unicode: U+83BC

Pinyin: chún

Definition

* 〔~菜〕多年生水草,浮在水面,叶子椭圆形,开暗红色花。茎和叶背面都有黏液,可食。简称"莼"

an edible water plant-brasenia

Structure

莼 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_84F4
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
81_E49D81_E49E81_E49F81_E4A281_E4A081_E4A1

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC