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薄荷

薄荷

Chinese

 
thin; slight; meagre; small; ungenerous; unkind; mean; frivolous; despise; belittle; to approach; to go near; peppermint
peppermint; to carry burden; lotus
simp. and trad.
(薄荷)

Noun

薄荷

  1. Mentha, mint
  2. peppermint

See also

  • 解表药 ("superfices-syndrome" relieving materia medica in traditional Chinese medicine)
  • 药材 (medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine)

References

  • 薄荷 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia zh
  • mentha on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Wu, Jingrong (ed.) (1985) The Pinyin CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY (in Mandarin/English), Beijing, Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, ISBN 0471867969

Japanese

Kanji in this term
はく > はっ
Grade: S

Grade: 3
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

薄荷 (hiragana はっか, katakana ハッカ, romaji hakka)

  1. mint, especially peppermint

References

  1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3