苓
苓 — ryeong
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 복령(茯苓) 령
- Romanization
- ryeong
- English
- fungus, tuber; licorice
- Mandarin
- líng
- Japanese on'yomi
- レイ, リョウ, レン, リン
- Japanese kun'yomi
- みみなぐさ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艸 (140, 5 residual)
- Unicode
- U+82D3
Japanese words with 苓
- 茯苓ぶくりょう Poria cocos (species of basidiomycete used in Chinese medicine)
- 猪苓ちょれい umbrella polypore sclerotium (used as a diuretic, antipyretic, and antitussive in traditional Chinese medicine)
- 土茯苓どぶくりょう Smilax glabra (species of sarsaparilla, used esp. to refer to its dried rhizome, used in Chinese medicine)
- 猪苓舞茸ちょれいまいたけ umbrella polypore (Polyporus umbellatus)
- 桂枝茯苓丸けいしぶくりょうがん keishibukuryōgan; traditional Chinese medicine prescribed for gynecological disorders
Japanese data from EDRDG KANJIDIC2 and JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0)