艹

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	艹
simplified	艹
traditional	艹

Alternative forms

There is a significant difference between the traditional Chinese glyph for this character and the glyph used by simplified Chinese, Japanese shinjitai, and Korean. 艹 is written with four strokes (U+2EBF ⺿ looking like 十 十, derived from 艸) in traditional Chinese, but with three strokes in simplified Chinese, in Japanese shinjitai, and in Korean Hanja. It is thus sometimes counted as having four strokes even in Japanese. Further, in Hong Kong, the traditional character is used, but the stroke order is vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal, while in traditional use the stroke order is vertical, horizontal, horizontal, vertical.

Han character

艹 (radical 140 艸+0, 3 strokes, cangjie input 十十 (JJ), X十十 (XJJ))

1. grass
2. radical number 140

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1017, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30639
• Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: not present, would follow volume 5, page 3172, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8279

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Mandarin

Hanzi

艹 (pinyin cǎozìtóu (cao3zi4tou2), jí (ji2), Wade-Giles ², chi²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

艹 (thảo)