芍 — Chinese character
芍
sháo
peony; water chestnuts
- Pinyin
- sháo
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 6
- Components
- 艹 勺
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 勺
- Japanese
- 芍 as a kanji
Common words with 芍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 芍药 (芍藥) | sháo yào | Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora); common herbaceous peony |
| 白芍 | bái sháo | root of herbaceous peony (Paeonia lactiflora), used in TCM |
| 赠芍 (贈芍) | zèng sháo | to give peonies; fig. exchange of gifts between lovers |
| 采兰赠芍 (采蘭贈芍) | cǎi lán zèng sháo | (lit.) to pluck orchids and gift peonies (idiom); (fig.) (of lovers) to exchange presents |
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.