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How do you read 蕨 in Japanese?
Curled young shoots in the spring countryside.
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Give the reading for the plant known as a spring wild vegetable with curled young shoots.
HINTShow hint
It has 艹 above 厥. The name also appears in the Japanese sweet ○○○もち.
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grass radical above 厥 kanji
kanji with grass above 厂 and a 欠-like shape
grass radical 15 strokes spring vegetable
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蕨: 15 strokes; radical 艸 / 艹 (grass). Visual search descriptions are distinct from dictionary radical classifications.
蕨15 strokes / radical: 艸 / 艹 (grass)
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The answer is
わらび
warabi
蕨
Understand the meaning
English translationBracken
A fern with curled young spring growth, familiar as a wild vegetable. Starch obtained from its rhizomes is called warabiko.
See it in a sentence
春の市場には、束にした蕨が並んでいた。Bundles of bracken shoots were displayed at the spring market.
A way to remember
The grass radical is a clue to the plant, but the reading is not split among the parts. The whole character is warabi.
Sources：Kanjipedia: 蕨 ／ Shogakukan Digital Daijisen: 蕨餅 (Kotobank)
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Connect the plant with the starch name
蕨の若芽 and 蕨を使った料理 refer to the plant. 蕨粉 names starch from its rhizomes, so the surrounding word tells you which part or product is meant.
例：郷土料理の本で、蕨の若芽を使った料理の写真を見つけた。
In a book of regional cooking, I found a photograph of a dish made with young bracken shoots.
Read the surrounding words
蕨 names the plant, while 蕨粉 and 蕨餅 concern starch or a sweet. Read the following characters rather than deciding the context from the single character alone.
References for this explanation：Kanjipedia: 蕨 ／ Shogakukan Digital Daijisen: 蕨餅 (Kotobank)
Explanation checked on 2026-10-26. Additional examples were written by DuraRing for this page.
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