Chinese symbol for “beans”
藿
huò
Lophanthus rugosus; beans
The closest CC-CEDICT match for beans is 藿 (huò), defined as: Lophanthus rugosus; beans.
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 藿.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 藿香 | huò xiāng | wrinkled giant hyssop; Agastache rugosa (botany) |
| 广藿香 (廣藿香) | guǎng huò xiāng | (botany) patchouli (Pogostemon cablin) |
| 淫羊藿 | yín yáng huò | Epimedium, 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.