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Alisma plantago
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The character 藚 is a phono-semantic compound formed by the semantic radical 艹 (grass, plants) and the phonetic component 卖, which indicates its pronunciation. It was created to denote a specific aquatic plant, commonly identified as water plantain, that grows in shallow waters and marshes. Due to its specialized botanical reference, this term has remained largely confined to classical agricultural, botanical, and traditional medical texts, without acquiring any extended or metaphorical senses beyond its precise biological meaning.
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