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葙 (xiāng) belongs to the vast set of Chinese characters devised to name plants, combining the grass radical 艹 (cǎo) at the top with the phonetic 相 (xiāng) below. The radical marks it as a botanical term, while the phonetic supplies the pronunciation without adding semantic content. Historically and today, 葙 appears almost solely in the compound 青葙 (qīngxiāng), the Chinese botanical name for Celosia argentea, an herbaceous plant with feathery flowers used in traditional medicine. The character thus acts as a specific label for this plant within the lexicon.
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