What 蓫 means
蓫 is a classical Chinese plant-name character. In the Book of Songs line “我行其野，言采其蓫”, the speaker walks through the fields and gathers it. Traditional commentary identifies it as 羊蹄 (羊蹄菜), a wild leafy plant often rendered as dock in English.
The Book of Songs is an old Chinese poetry anthology. Its poems range roughly from 1100–600 BCE, which dates the poem tradition, not the first appearance or invention of the character.
Why do glosses name different plants?
They preserve different historical plant glosses, not one certain species.
The Erya, an early Chinese dictionary, pairs 蓫 with 薚 in 蓫薚 and glosses that plant name as 馬尾. Later dictionary notes connect 馬尾 with 商陸. These traditions differ from the Book of Songs gloss 羊蹄; neither establishes one modern species. Use the cited source as your guide. Without that context, translate 蓫 as an old plant-name character rather than guessing a species.
Classical and botanical: it fits a historical plant gloss or quotation.
Without its source, don’t treat 蓫 as a precise modern plant identification.
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1How to pronounce 蓫
Modern Mandarin reads it zhú, roughly like “joo” with a rising tone. The accent mark shows the tone in Pinyin.
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