淡巴菰

1. • tobacco (loanword) (old)

Character by character

• 淡(dàn)insipid
• 巴(bā)Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty
• 菰(gū)Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白笋 jiāobáisǔn, which is swollen by a smut fungus