Chinese symbol for “yarrow”

蓍

shī

yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for yarrow is 蓍 (shī), defined as: yarrow (Achillea millefolium).

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Characters and stroke order

蓍 shī

yarrow, milfoil; a plant used in divination

radical 140 ⾋ · 14 strokes

See also: Japanese symbol for “yarrow”.

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.