Kanji

Stroke count: 16

Meaning: an edible fern

Kunyomi: ぜんまい

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Meaning: grass

Examples

Onyomi Examples

野薔 ノイバラ multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), baby rose, Japanese rose

難波薔 ナニワイバラ Cherokee rose (Rosa laevigata)

冬薔 フユソウビ winter rose

Kunyomi Examples

ぜんまい royal fern (Osmunda japonica), flowering fern, osmund, fiddlehead fern

城山 しろやまぜんまい Osmunda banksiifolia (species of fern)