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芹: Japanese parsley (seri)

Japanese parsley (seri)
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Readings

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キン
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せり

芹 is せり, one of the seven herbs of spring (春の七草); it is often written in kana.

Key words

芹せりJapanese parsley; water dropwort
水芹せりwater dropwort
三葉芹みつばぜりhonewort (mitsuba)
毒芹どくぜりwater hemlock

Example sentences

On the morning of January 7th, we eat seven-herb rice porridge containing seri, daikon and more.

The water hemlock I found by the river looks a lot like the edible seri, so you have to be careful.

In the spring meadow, I found the tiny white flowers of the honewort.

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