蘑
Tap the pinyin to hear it
mushroom
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 艸 +16
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 蘑
- Common rank
- #3,270
- Unicode
- U+8611
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
mushroom (cap) · Heisig RSH #2995
flower + 磨 grind
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 蘑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 松口蘑 | matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan | |
| 口蘑 | Saint George's mushroom (Tricholoma mongplicum) | |
| 蘑菇云 | mushroom cloud | |
| 松蘑 | matsutake (Tricholoma matsutake), edible mushroom considered a great delicacy in Japan | |
| 迷幻蘑菇 | psilocybin mushroom; magic mushroom | |
| 蘑菇汤 | mushroom soup | |
| 泡蘑菇 | to procrastinate; to shilly-shally and waste time | |
| 双孢蘑菇 | cultivated mushroom; champignon (Agaricus bisporus) | |
| 蘑菇 | mushroom; to pester; to dawdle |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 磨 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 磨 sound part | millstone; to grind, to polish, to rub, to wear out | |
| 耱 | a kind of farm tool |