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Japanese
Noun
紫根 • (shikon)
- roots of purple gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon
- (traditional Chinese medicine) dried roots of purple gromwell, Lithospermum erythrorhizon used in medicine
- Short for 紫根色 (shikon-iro, “a purple produced by gromwell roots”).
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