蔃 (koeng2 goeng2 | ) : roots of plants

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蔃

koeng2 goeng2

roots of plants (usually referring to the bigger roots and not hair roots)

Jyutping koeng2 is standard reading; goeng2 is variant. See [www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk]

Stroke count: 14

Level: 4

Radical: 艸 (#140)

This character is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

蔃

This word has been viewed 2872 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bernard on 3rd Mar 2008 12:27 and last edited on 9th Oct 2013 05:39

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無根無蔃 mou4 gan1 mou4 koeng2 = without roots; not rooted 粵

根蔃 gan1 koeng2 = roots of plants 粵

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啲老樹好多根蔃粵
These old trees have lots of roots.

整支蔃嚟粵
Get me a cigarette

一個人喺異鄉無根無蔃，咩都要靠自己，真唔容易粵
To be alone in a foreign place without the support from family or society, one has to be very independent; and that can be very trying.

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粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 蔃
Unicode code for this character: U+8503 (off-site link)

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