苋 — Chinese character
苋
xiàn
amaranth
- Pinyin
- xiàn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 艹 见
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 见
- Traditional
- 莧
Common words with 苋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 苋菜 (莧菜) | xiàn cài | amaranth greens (genus Amaranthus); Chinese spinach (Amaranth mangostanus) |
| 马齿苋 (馬齒莧) | mǎ chǐ xiàn | Portulaca oleracea (common purslane) |
| 苋科 (莧科) | xiàn kē | Amaranthaceae, family of herbaceous plants containing Chinese spinach (Amaranthus inamoenus) 苋菜 (xiàn cài) |
| 刺苋 (刺莧) | cì xiàn | prickly amaranth (Amaranthus spinosus) |
| 白苋 (白莧) | bái xiàn | white amaranth (Amaranthus albus); sprouts and tender leaves of Chinese spinach (Amaranthus spp.) used as food |
| 白苋紫茄 (白莧紫茄) | bái xiàn zǐ qié | white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle |
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.