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đông trùng hạ thảo

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caterpillar fungus
Noun
caterpillar fungus

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Sense 1 Noun
caterpillar fungus

A type of fungus that lives on certain caterpillars in the high mountain regions of China and Tibet.

vi Đông trùng hạ thảo là một loại nấm quý hiếm sống ở vùng núi cao.

en Caterpillar fungus is a rare type of fungus that lives in high mountain regions.

Parts
đông / trùng / Sino-Vietnamese; the character is 冬蟲夏草 …
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OriginSino-Vietnamese; the character is 冬蟲夏草

Chinese characters Source-aligned
Representative candidate
冬蟲夏草
Candidates by syllable
đông 東 trùng 虫(沖 / 蟲 / 溕) hạ 下 thảo 草(討)
Bold marks the representative form aligned to a source as the spelling of the whole word. Parentheses show other candidates for the same syllable. Source and confidence are shown in the heading above.
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mùa đông / phương đông / đông sơn / đám đông …
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