艸
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[edit] Translingual
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[edit] Alternative forms
- 艹 (when used as a head Chinese radical)
[edit] Etymology
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| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
[edit] Han character
艸 (radical 140 艸+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 山山 (UU), X山山 (XUU), four-corner 22447)
- grass
- KangXi radical 140
[edit] Usage notes
In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1,902 characters (out of 40,000) that use this radical, making it the most commonly used radical.
[edit] Descendants
[edit] References
- KangXi: page 1017, character 1
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30638
- Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 6
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3172, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8278
[edit] Cantonese
[edit] Hanzi
艸 (Yale chou2)
[edit] Korean
[edit] Hanja
艸 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)
[edit] Mandarin
[edit] Hanzi
艸 (pinyin cǎo (cao3), Wade-Giles ts'ao3)
[edit] Usage notes
The character 草 is now used for this sense.
