Word: freq index 44230 Character: radical 艸, 11 strokes, freq index 4729
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 茭白筍[jiāo bái sǔn], which is swollen by a smut fungus (variant of 菇[gū]) mushroom