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本草

本草

Chinese

		roots or stems of plants; origin; source roots or stems of plants; origin; source; this; the current; root; foundation; basis; (a measure word)	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
simp. and trad. (本草)		本	草
anagram		草本

Noun

本草

materia medica

Synonyms

藥典／药典 (yàodiǎn)

Derived terms

本草綱目／本草纲目 (Běncǎo Gāngmù)

References

Materia medica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
本草 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh

Lu Xun (1918) A Madman's Diary