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Kanji for Butterbur
The kanji for “butterbur” is 蕗, read ro and written in 16 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
蕗
butterbur
A wild spring plant of Japanese mountains, one of the first green shoots after snow.
16 strokes On reading ロ、ル (ro, ru) Kun reading ふき (fuki) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: butterbur, bog rhubarb
Readings used for names on Nazuke: fuki, ru, ro
In Japan it appears in about 68 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
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