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本草
  bun2 cou2   jyutping
  ben3 cao3   pinyin
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine; Chinese materia medica


Level: 5
This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
本草

This word has been viewed 1277 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by bybell on 19th Feb 2006 17:54 and last edited on 2nd Aug 2009 02:14
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 bun2  -  basis; original; copy
 cou2  -  grass; herbs; weed

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本草綱目 - An Outline Treatise of Medical Herbs, compiled by Li3 Shi2 Zhen1 李時珍
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