Definitions
old variant of 茲|兹[zī]
Etymology
About
The rare phono-semantic compound 茊 historically denoted a type of plant or served as a place name in ancient texts. Its structure features the grass radical 艹 on top, placing it within the semantic category of vegetation, while the component 丘 below functions primarily as the phonetic element indicating pronunciation. Essentially obsolete today, 茊 appears only in specialized historical dictionaries or as a phonetic element in ancient geographic records, with no modern definitions.