. "The Chinese term zh\u012B (\u829D) commonly means \"fungi; mushroom\", best exemplified by the medicinal Lingzhi mushroom, but in Daoism it referred to a class of supernatural plant, animal, and mineral substances that were said to confer instantaneous xian immortality when ingested. In the absence of a semantically better English word, scholars have translated the wide-ranging meaning of zhi as \"excrescences\", \"exudations\", and \"cryptogams\"."@en . . . . . . . "58310931"^^ . . . . . "Zhi"@en . . "chih"@en . . "Zhi (excrescences)"@en . . . . . . . . "Ancient Chinese seal script for zhi \u829D"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\u829D"@en . . . "t\u0259"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "150"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\u2009 tsyi"@en . . . . . "October 2020"@en . . . . . . . . . . . "zh\u012B"@en . . . . . . "The Chinese term zh\u012B (\u829D) commonly means \"fungi; mushroom\", best exemplified by the medicinal Lingzhi mushroom, but in Daoism it referred to a class of supernatural plant, animal, and mineral substances that were said to confer instantaneous xian immortality when ingested. In the absence of a semantically better English word, scholars have translated the wide-ranging meaning of zhi as \"excrescences\", \"exudations\", and \"cryptogams\"."@en . . . . . . . . . . "mushroom"@en . . . . . . . . "Parenthetical referencing has been deprecated; convert to shortened footnotes."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "35172"^^ . . . . "1057423928"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "\u829D-seal.svg"@en . . . . . .