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荙 is a compound character with the grass radical 艹 at the top and 达 (dá) beneath it. The 艹 radical signals something in the plant kingdom, while 达 indicates the pronunciation without adding any meaning of its own. The character denotes certain leafy vegetables belonging to the beet family, most notably Swiss chard. The simplified form uses 达; the traditional form, 薘, replaces it with the fuller phonetic 達. Thus, 荙 exemplifies the common Chinese pattern of combining a semantic radical and a phonetic element to name a specific plant.
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