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Leonurus macranthus
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蓷 is a phono-semantic compound whose upper component is the plant radical 艹, the standard marker for botanical terms, while the lower component 推 functions as the phonetic, giving the pronunciation tuī. The character was created to record the medicinal herb motherwort (Leonurus japonicus), a plant commonly referenced in traditional Chinese texts. As a precise written form, it captures the name of a species that figures prominently in classical pharmacology and historical botanical literature.
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