lingzhi
ling·zhi/ˈlɪŋt͡ʃi/noun
lingzhi is a noun meaning “A medicinal mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine, Ganoderma lucidum and other closely related mushroom of the genus Ganoderma” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-I-N-G-Z-H-I and has 2 syllables (ling·zhi), and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does lingzhi mean?
noun
- 1
A medicinal mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicine, Ganoderma lucidum and other closely related mushroom of the genus Ganoderma.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lingzhi?
- /ˈlɪŋt͡ʃi/
- /ˈlɪŋd͡ʒi/
- /ˈlɪŋd͡ʒə/
Lingzhi has 2 syllables, split ling·zhi in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lingzhi
- lingchih
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lingzhi?
Lingzhi appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lingzhi come from?
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 靈芝 /灵芝 (língzhī). Doublet of reishi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).