Simplified:

lái ㄌㄞˊ

    • name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)
    • Chenopodium album

How 萊 is written

    部首 radical
    a form of
    笔画 strokes
    11, with 8 after the 部首 The drawing takes 12 strokes, writing in another form.
    结构 structure
    上下结构
    偏旁 parts
    形旁 meaning
    声旁 sound

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