芒 Chinese silvergrass; grain awn; flowering grass 3-7 feet tall, a beard on wheat or other grain plants, a bristly appendage of a plant 艹,亡,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

ボウ　･　コウ　･　モウ
BO　U　･　KO　U　･　MO　U

Kun-yomi

すすき　･　のぎ　･　のげ
su　su　ki　･　no　gi　･　no　ge

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

艹

カン,あげまき,あらがね,くさかんむり emerging shafts, stalks, stems, shoots

　PLANTS, VEGETATION, FLOWERS, EMERGING SHAFTS, BUDDY SYSTEM
…or: ERECTION and ROD within CAVITIES
…or: EMERGE with STALKS, STEMS
…or: TWENTY, MULTIPLE SCREWINGS, PENETRATING SHAFTS, ARRAY OF RODS
…or: HAIR-RAISING PREPUBESCENT YOUNG VIRGIN DIVA
…or: DIVINE, CRESTING HEAD CONDITIONS WHEN ONE'S ROD IS RAISED
…or: DEEP SHAFT
…or: multiple FILLED COMPLETELY PERFECTLY FULL SCREWINGS, ROTATIONS, TWISTINGS, TURNINGS, NEEDLES, TENS
　

亡

ボウ,モウ,な,ほろ unseen, cannot be seen, cease to be, lose, die, deceased, dead, death

　marker above SEEN NO MORE
…or: PALM DOWN, CONTROL OF HEAD and HANGED
　

Meanings of elements

EMERGING SHAFTS and DEAD

AWNS are the sharp spikes or pricks that grow at the tip around most grain plants, emerging shafts that impale, and whether actually dead or not, these are「emerging shafts」that「appear dead」due to color and hardness. Species of grass that grows to a height that makes it easy to hide within, usually taller than most human beings. CHINESE SILVERGRASS is a tall grass that is quite easily seen but causes a person within to remain unseen, and normally remains tall even after the portion above the soil dies in the autumn. Pampas grass, a species similar in appearance to Chinese silvergrass, is native to the South American continent. Zebra grass propagates in areas where zebras live, in Africa.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: awn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade); Miscanthus sinensis (type of grass); variant of 邙, Mt Mang at Luoyang in Henan
Japanese: Japanese pampas grass, silver grass, zebra grass, arista, awn, beard
Unihan extended: Miscanthus sinensis
EDRDG: pampas grass; beard (grain)

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By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any dictionary. This site explains the dual meanings of glyphs most often ignored by other sources that provide you with only the sanctioned definition, generally.