Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- xiàn
English
- edible greens
- amaranth (genus Amaranthus)
- amaranth
- Joseph's coat (Amaranthus tricolor)
- Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus)
As a component in
Variants
Words containing 莧
- 莧菜jin6 coi3
amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus)
- 莧科jin6 fo1
Amaranthaceae, family of herbaceous plants containing Chinese spinach (Amaranthus inamoenus) 莧菜|苋菜[xian4 cai4]
- 白莧baak6 jin6
white amaranth (Amaranthus albus)
- 刺莧ci3 jin6
prickly amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus)
- 紅莧菜hung4 jin6 coi3
red amaranth
- 馬齒莧maa5 ci2 jin6
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane)
- 白莧紫茄baak6 jin6 zi2 ke2
white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle