莧 — Chinese character
莧
xiàn
amaranth
- Pinyin
- xiàn
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 見
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 見
- Simplified
- 苋
莧 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: I Ching 1
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.