菰
Meanings
- Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus
- variant of 菇[gu1]
Its parts
Other characters with 孤 as their sound:
Dictionaries file it under 艸.