菖 — Chinese character
菖
chāng
iris, sweet flag, Calamus
- Pinyin
- chāng
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 昌
- Formation
- pictophonetic — grass; meaning component 艹; sound component 昌
- Japanese
- 菖 as a kanji
Common words with 菖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菖蒲 | chāng pú | Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag |
| 水菖蒲 | shuǐ chāng pú | Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.