English

1. wild rice
2. Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus
3. Zizania latifolia
4. variant of 菇[gu1]

Variants

• 菇semantic variant

Words containing 菰

• 香菰hoeng1 gu1

  variant of 香菇[xiang1 gu1]

• 茨菰ci4 gu1

  arrowhead (Sagittaria subulata, a water plant)

• 燉冬菰dan6 dung1 gu1

  demotion; to be demoted [colloquial]

• 淡巴菰daam6 baa1 gu1

  tobacco (loanword) (old)