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wèng

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wèng
  1. 1.water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia
  2. 2.Taiwan pr. [yōng]

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica)
  2. 2.thick; lush

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 雍 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋs). From 壅 (OC *qoŋ, *qoŋʔ, *qoŋs, “to heap soil around the roots of a plant”) according to the Compendium of Materia Medica

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