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Chinese symbol for “beans”

藿
huò
Lophanthus rugosus; beans

The closest CC-CEDICT match for beans is 藿 (huò), defined as: Lophanthus rugosus; beans.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

藿 huò
betony, bishop's wort; lophanthus rugosus
radical 140 ⾋ · 19 strokes

Related words

Other words that share a character with 藿.

WordPinyinMeaning
藿香huò xiāngwrinkled giant hyssop; Agastache rugosa (botany)
广藿香 (廣藿香)guǎng huò xiāng(botany) patchouli (Pogostemon cablin)
淫羊藿yín yáng huòEpimedium, genus of herbaceous flowering plant, cultivated in the Far East as aphrodisiac; also called barrenwort or horny goatweed (said to
藿麻huò má(Sichuan dialect) nettle

See also: Japanese symbol for “beans”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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