槮

简 椮 · 繁 槮
Mandarin · pinyin sēn

Meanings

  1. lush growth (trees)
  2. fishing using bundled wood (archaic)
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1 · sen1

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sam1 · sam2

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  1. (literary, of trees) towering; tall
  2. synonym of 罧 (shèn, “to catch fish by trapping them in a bundle of tree branches”)

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