本草纲目 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 本草綱目 běncǎogāngmù ㄅㄣˇ ㄘㄠˇ ㄍㄤ ㄇㄨˋ Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李时珍 lǐshízhēn Character by character 本(běn)root 草(cǎo)grass 纲(gāng)head rope of a fishing net 目(mù)eye A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0