Chinese symbol for “dandelion”
蒲公英
pú gōng yīng
dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for dandelion is 蒲公英 (pú gōng yīng), defined as: dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蒲公英.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蒲团 (蒲團) | pú tuán | praying mat (Buddhism, made of woven cattail) |
| 菖蒲 | chāng pú | Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag |
| 蒲式耳 | pú shì ěr | bushel (eight gallons) |
| 香蒲 | xiāng pú | Typha orientalis; broadleaf cumbungi |
| 蒲扇 | pú shàn | palm-leaf fan; cattail-leaf fan |
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 公开 (公開) | gōng kāi | open; overt; public; to make public; to release |
| 公民 | gōng mín | citizen |
| 英雄 | yīng xióng | hero; 个 (gè) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “dandelion”.
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.