Chinese symbol for “turnip”
芜菁
wú jīng
Traditional: 蕪菁
turnip
The closest CC-CEDICT match for turnip is 芜菁 (wú jīng), defined as: turnip.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “turnip”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 芜菁.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒芜 (荒蕪) | huāng wú | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown |
| 莱芜 (萊蕪) | lái wú | field with dense growth of wild weeds |
| 芜杂 (蕪雜) | wú zá | miscellaneous; mixed and disorderly (of writing) |
| 芜菁甘蓝 (蕪菁甘藍) | wú jīng gān lán | rutabaga (vegetable) |
| 繁芜 (繁蕪) | fán wú | wordy; verbose |
| 菁英 | jīng yīng | elite |
| 菁华 (菁華) | jīng huá | the cream; essence |
| 蔓菁 | mán jing | turnip |
See also: Japanese symbol for “turnip”.
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.