Common Meanings
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jiāo茭
Dry grass, also known as fodder, used for feeding livestock.
农民们把收割好的茭草堆放起来，以备冬天喂牲畜。
Farmers stack the harvested fodder grass to feed livestock in winter.
A vegetable, specifically the enlarged tender stem of Zizania latifolia (water bamboo), swollen due to parasitic infection by a fungus, commonly used in Chinese cuisine.
我喜欢吃清炒茭白，味道鲜美。
I enjoy eating stir-fried water bamboo shoots; they taste delicious.
A rope or cable woven from bamboo strips or reeds, used for mooring or binding.
渔民们用茭将小船系在岸边。
Fishermen used a bamboo/reed rope to tie the small boat to the shore.