甜根草

Chinese

		sweet	radical (chem.); root; basis	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (甜根草)		甜	根	草
simp. #(甜根草)		甜	根	草

Pronunciation

• Jin (Wiktionary): tie¹ geng¹ cau²

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• Jin
  • (Taiyuan)⁺
    • Wiktionary: tie¹ geng¹ cau²
    • Sinological IPA (old-style, no sandhi): /tʰxie¹¹ kə̃ŋ¹¹ t͡sʰau⁵³/

Noun

甜根草

1. (Jin) licorice root (Glycyrrhiza uralensis)

Synonyms

• 國老／国老 (guólǎo)

Dialectal synonyms of 甘草 (“licorice”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		甘草
Mandarin	Taiwan	甘草
	Luoyang	甘草
	Yinchuan	甘草
Cantonese	Hong Kong	甘草
Gan	Nanchang	甘草
	Lichuan	甘草
Hakka	Yudu	甘草
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	甘草
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	甘草
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	甘草
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	甘草
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	甘草
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	甘草
Jin	Taiyuan	甜根草, 甜草根兒
Southern Min	Xiamen	甘草
	Quanzhou	甘草
	Zhangzhou	甘草
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	甘草
Wu	Suzhou	甘草
	Danyang	甘草
Xiang	Loudi	甘草