Chinese symbol for “fern”
蕨类
jué lèi
Traditional: 蕨類
(botany) fern; bracken; brake
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fern is 蕨类 (jué lèi), defined as: (botany) fern; bracken; brake.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蕨类.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 人类 (人類) | rén lèi | humanity; human race |
| 类似 (類似) | lèi sì | similar; analogous |
| 类型 (類型) | lèi xíng | type; kind; category; (computer programming) type |
| 分类 (分類) | fēn lèi | to classify |
| 之类 (之類) | zhī lèi | and so on; and such |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fern”.
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.