Chinese symbol for “mushroom”
蘑菇
mó gu
mushroom; to pester; to dawdle
The closest CC-CEDICT match for mushroom is 蘑菇 (mó gu), defined as: mushroom; to pester; to dawdle.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “mushroom”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蘑菇.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蘑菇云 (蘑菇雲) | mó gū yún | mushroom cloud |
| 口蘑 | kǒu mó | Saint George's mushroom (Tricholoma mongplicum) |
| 松蘑 | sōng mó | matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan |
| 松口蘑 | sōng kǒu mó | matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan |
| 泡蘑菇 | pào mó gu | to procrastinate; to shilly-shally and waste time |
| 香菇 | xiāng gū | shiitake (Lentinus edodes), an edible mushroom |
| 磨菇 | mó gu | variant of 蘑菇 (mó gu) |
| 冬菇 | dōng gū | donko shiitake mushroom, a prized type of shiitake (Lentinula edodes) cultivated in winter, with thick flesh and partially open cap |
See also: Japanese symbol for “mushroom”.
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.