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韭

韮
jiǔ

Meanings

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jiǔ
  1. 1.variant of 韭[jiǔ]
jiǔ
  1. 1.leek

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.garlic chives; Chinese chives; Chinese leek (Allium tuberosum)

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – leek in the ground (一). Unrelated to 非. Cognate to Tibetan སྒོག་པ (sgog pa, “garlic, leek”) and Japhug ɕku (“onion”) (Zhang, Jacques & Lai 2019). One can reconstruct Proto-Sino-Tibetan *skuq to cover these words.

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Stroke order

Components

韭非㇐

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Synonyms

韭菜扁菜快菜韭仔韭菜仔

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Derived terms

冒雨剪韭堯韭尧韭水韭芽韭韭芽韭菜韭菜盒韭菜盒子韭菜花韭黃韭黄黃芽韭黄芽韭

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Related words

韭黄 yellow chives (Chinese chives grown without sunlight, resulting in white stems and yellow leaves)韭菜 garlic chives (Allium tuberosum), aka Chinese chives韭菜花 chives (Allium tuberosum)割韭菜 (fig.) (coll.) to fleece a group of people repeatedly (esp. small investors, consumers or fans), treating them as an endlessly renewable resource to harvest for profit韭菜盒子 chive pocket, savory pan-fried turnover stuffed with garlic chives and other ingredients (usually contains scrambled eggs)