車前子

See also: 车前子

Chinese

			child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (車前子)		車前	子
simp. (车前子)		车前	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēqiánzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄜ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄗˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ce¹ cin⁴ zi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēqiánzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄜ ㄑㄧㄢˊ ㄗˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: checiánzǐh
    • Wade–Giles: chʻê¹-chʻien²-tzŭ³
    • Yale: chē-chyán-dž
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chechyantzyy
    • Palladius: чэцяньцзы (čɛcjanʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɛn³⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ce¹ cin⁴ zi²
    • Yale: chē chìhn jí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tse¹ tsin⁴ dzi²
    • Guangdong Romanization: cé¹ qin⁴ ji²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛː⁵⁵ t͡sʰiːn²¹ t͡siː³⁵/

Noun

車前子

1. seed of the Plantago asiatica (a seed used in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce "damp-heat" and treat sexual dysfunction)

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 五根草

References

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