Chinese symbol for “bracken”
蕨
jué
Pteridium aquilinum; bracken
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bracken is 蕨 (jué), defined as: Pteridium aquilinum; bracken.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “bracken”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蕨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蕨类 (蕨類) | jué lèi | (botany) fern; bracken; brake |
| 蕨菜 | jué cài | edible fern fronds (fiddleheads), esp. bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) |
| 凤尾蕨 (鳳尾蕨) | fèng wěi jué | brake (fern of genus Pteris); (esp.) spider fern (Pteris multifida) |
| 鹿角蕨 | lù jiǎo jué | staghorn fern (genus Platycerium) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bracken”.
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.