Pronunciation/Chinese readings
How do you pronounce 荇菜?
荇(xìng)菜xìng cài
Commonly said as: reading 荇 as xíng
杏菜
荇菜
What it is
荇菜 is the aquatic plant that opens the first poem of the Book of Songs.
Why it gets said wrong
荇 has only one reading, fourth-tone xìng. The second tone heard in classroom readings is simply wrong.
Hear it in a sentence
The line opens the classic poem.
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