How to write 菘

菘 [sōng] (名) 1. 菘菜: Refers to "Chinese cabbage". 2. 菘蓝: A biennial herbaceous plant with oval and flat siliques. It is commonly used to produce the dye indigo. Both the root (known as "banlan gen") and the leaves (known as "daqing ye") can be used in medicine. 菘 [sōng] (名) (Phonetic compound. From grass radical, sound of "song". The original meaning: A type of vegetable name, which can be classified into varieties like Chinese cabbage, green vegetable, and yellow sprout vegetable). Same as the original meaning (English: celery cabbage). A biennial herbaceous cultivated plant of the cruciferous family, with many varieties, generally referred to as Chinese cabbage. It is a multi-leaved cultivated plant derived from wild European plants, characterized by a short stem with numerous usually green leaves clustered on top, forming a tight, spherical head structure used as a vegetable. The white variety is called "Chinese cabbage," and the pale yellow variety is called "yellow sprout vegetable."