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  *汤* | 汤* | *汤
soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled
HSK 3
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  *和* | 和* | *和
to mix (ingredients) together / to blend / classifier for rinses of clothes / classifier for boilings of medicinal herbs
medicinal herb (genus Mesona) / grass jelly
(of sultry weather) to be stifling / (TCM) to treat a disease with fumes generated by burning medicinal herbs or with steam generated by boiling herbs / to fumigate
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍
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  *苙* | 苙* | *苙
(herb) / pigsty
to blend (colors, herbs); to mix
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  *蕲* | 蕲* | *蕲
(herb) / implore / pray / place name
pseudoginseng (Panax pseudoginseng), hemostatic herb
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  *蕶* | 蕶* | *蕶
withered (plant, herb etc)
produce / fresh fruits and vegetables / fresh aquatic food / fresh herbs
aromatic herb / vanilla / alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei / (fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)
costus root (medicinal herb) / aucklandia / Saussurea costus / Dolomiaea souliei
medicinal herb
savory (herb)
clear soup / white broth, also called 奶湯|奶汤 / decoction of chrysanthemum, liquorice and certain other herbs
medicine made from a single herb / drug made from a single substance
wild herb / potherb
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty
snow lotus herb / Saussurea involucrata
sage (herb)
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  *蔙* | 蔙* | *蔙
(herb)
(botany) convolvulvus / Flos Inulae (Chinese herb)
Chinese herb tea
unprocessed medicinal herb
Feng Deying (1935–2022), author of the 1958 novel Bitter Herbs 苦菜花
turtle jelly, medicine made with powdered turtle shell and herbs / a similar product made without turtle shell and consumed as a dessert
centaury herb with flowers (TCM) / Herba Centaurii altaici cum flore
lit. fragrant herbs and foul herbs do not go into the same vessel (idiom) / bad people and good people do not mix
Li Shizhen (1518-1593), Ming botanist and pharmacologist, author of Compendium of Medical Herbs 本草綱目|本草纲目
to parch and refine medicinal herbs
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  *蒄* | 蒄* | *蒄
(herb mentioned in ancient texts)
Chinese plantain (Plantago asiatica), perennial herb used in TCM
to gather and process (herbs etc) / (of a reporter) to gather material and put together (a recorded news item)
to decoct medicinal herbs
dill (herb, Anethum graveolens)
sage (herb)
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  *蘻* | 蘻* | *蘻
a kind of herb (old)
green sauce; pesto (loosely used for sauces made with green herbs)
Pei Pa Koa, proprietary cough syrup made with traditional Chinese herbs
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  *芕* | 芕* | *芕
a kind of medicinal herb
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
Alyxia root and herb (used in TCM)
(Tw) a traditional Taiwanese drink made from cooling medicinal herbs, typically used to relieve internal heat or sore throat, made with ingredients such as mesona 仙草, fish mint 魚腥草|鱼腥草, mint and dandelion
Rabdosia lophanthoides (no common name), herb plant of Lamiaceae family (together with mint and lavender), used in TCM
sedge herb (Cyperus rotundus)
(loanword) Japanese ardisia (Ardisia japonica) (herb)
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
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  *芞* | 芞* | *芞
a kind of aromatic herb (old)
schizonepeta, herb used in Chinese medicine
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  *萐* | 萐* | *萐
(auspicious herb)
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  *蒗* | 蒗* | *蒗
(herb) / place name
"leicha", a beverage or gruel made from tea leaves, roasted peanuts and herbs etc ground into a powder, traditionally consumed by Hakka people and in the north of Hunan province
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  *蓸* | 蓸* | *蓸
(a kind of herb)
medicinal herb seedling
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  *蓠* | 蓠* | *蓠
red algae / Gracilaria, several species, some edible / Japanese ogonori / arch. used for vanilla-like herb
Gracilaria confervoides (a fragrant herb)
Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英, made into a film in 1965
a variety of aromatic herb used as a fragrance or bug repeller (old)
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  *鄿* | 鄿* | *鄿
(herb) / place name
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  *芗* | 芗* | *芗
aromatic herb used for seasoning / variant of


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