Pickled potherb mustard is a common home-style ingredient.
Tips
usage
Most learners meet this character only in the dish name 雪里蕻 (potherb mustard, also written 雪菜). A second, literary reading 蕻 means 'luxuriant; flourishing' or the long stem of a vegetable, but it is rare in everyday speech.
The grass radical 艹 on top, a flattened form of 草. It marks 蕻 as a leafy vegetable, the same family as 菜 and 蒌.
phonetic
鬨hòng
uproar (phonetic)
Below the grass cap sits a 共-based body that carries the sound hóng/hòng. The shared phonetic core links the reading to other hóng-family characters built on 共.
