川貝母

See also: 川贝母

Chinese

		river; creek; plain river; creek; plain; an area of level country; Sichuan province (abbrev.)	cowries; shell; valuables cowries; shell; valuables; shellfish	female; mother
trad. (川貝母)		川	貝	母
simp. (川贝母)		川	贝	母

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chuānbèimǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄢ ㄅㄟˋ ㄇㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chuānbèimǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄢ ㄅㄟˋ ㄇㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chuanbèimǔ
    • Wade–Giles: chʻuan¹-pei⁴-mu³
    • Yale: chwān-bèi-mǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuanbeymuu
    • Palladius: чуаньбэйму (čuanʹbɛjmu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵ peɪ̯⁵¹ mu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Noun

川貝母

1. bulb of the Sichuan fritillary (Fritillaria sichuanica), used in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce phlegm.

See also

• 化痰止咳平喘药

References

• 川贝母 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
• Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.