通草

Chinese

		go through; know well; to connect go through; know well; to connect; to communicate; open	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (通草)		通	草
simp. #(通草)		通	草

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tōngcǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨㄥ ㄘㄠˇ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): thong-chhó

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tōngcǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨㄥ ㄘㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tongcǎo
    • Wade–Giles: tʻung¹-tsʻao³
    • Yale: tūng-tsǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tongtsao
    • Palladius: тунцао (tuncao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰʊŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: thong-chhó
    • Tâi-lô: thong-tshó
    • Phofsit Daibuun: tongzhoir
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tʰɔŋ³³ t͡sʰo⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰo⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰɤ⁴¹/

Noun

通草

1. rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax spp.) (An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat typhoid and to promote lactation.)

References

• 通草 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
通	草
あけび
Grade: 2	Grade: 1
jukujikun

For pronunciation and definitions of 通草 – see the following entry.

【あけびアケビ】 [noun] [from late 800s] chocolate vine (Akebia quinata) [noun] [date uncertain] general name for the genus Akebia [noun] [date uncertain] (slang) female genitals (possibly from the shape of the ripened and opened fruit) [noun] [from 1915] (thief cant) the eye Alternative spellings 木通, 蓪

(This term, 通草, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)