萵
lettuce
Strokes12
Readings
On'yomi
- ワ
Kun'yomi
—
Meaning
萵 refers specifically to lettuce, a leafy plant used as food.
Most common words using 萵
Study
Etymology
萵 is a phono-semantic compound: the grass radical 艹 indicates a plant, and 咼 (カ) provides the sound ワ. The character was created to represent lettuce.
Meaning mnemonic
The grass radical 艹 sits above 咼, like a leafy lettuce plant growing out of a tangled root ball.
Reading mnemonic
For ワ, imagine a rabbit saying 'wa!' as it happily munches on a big leaf of lettuce: wa -> ワ.