蔷薇薔薇 in English

Character breakdown

• 蔷薔 qiáng Japanese rose (Rosa multiflora)
• 薇 wēi Osmunda regalis, a species of fern

How it used to be written

蔷

These are the forms of 薔, the traditional character: 蔷 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Small seal script

薇

• Small seal script
• Small seal script

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 心有猛虎，细嗅蔷薇。

  In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

All example sentences with 蔷薇