草

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

草 (radical 140 艸+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 廿日十 (TAJ), four-corner 4440₆, composition ⿱艹早)

Derived characters

• 愺 騲

See also

• 華 (はな, hana) "flower"
• 花 (はな, hana) "flower"
• 植

References

• KangXi: page 1030, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30945
• Dae Jaweon: page 1489, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3203, character 4
• Unihan data for U+8349

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		草

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cǎo (cao³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cou²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): chhó
• Min Nan (POJ): chháu / chhó
• Wu (WT Romanisation): tshau (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: cǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄠˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ts'ao³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsao
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: cou²
    • Yale: chóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsou²
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhó
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /t͡sʰo³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chháu / chhó
    • Tâi-lô: tsháu / tshó
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰaʊ⁴¹/, /t͡sʰə⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰaʊ⁵³/, /t͡sʰə⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: tshau (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɔ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (草, reconstructed)
Character (草), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 清 (14) Final: 豪 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 采老切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑuX/	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/t͡sʰawX/	/t͡sʰɑuX/	/t͡sʰɑuX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (草, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
草								cǎo								‹ tshawX ›								/*[tsʰ]ˤuʔ/								grass, plants
草								cǎo								‹ tshawX ›								/*[tsʰ]ˤuʔ/								rough, coarse
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
草					16547					早					幽					1					草					/*sʰuːʔ/					說文作艸

Definitions

草

1. grass, straw, thatch
2. herbal grass(es), herbs
3. (basically) any such green, leafy plant without any bark (plants, not trees)

Compounds

Derived terms

• 仙草

• 夏枯草

• 延齡草／延龄草

• 木犀草

• 牛膝草

• 獨活草／独活草

• 甘草

• 白花草

• 百日草

• 益母草

• 紫草

• 草仔粿

• 草原

• 草把

• 草料

• 草根

• 草案

• 草草

• 草荒

• 草莓

• 草菇

• 草菴／草庵

• 草酸

• 草鞋

• 草體／草体

• 蓍草

• 藥草／药草

• 車前草／车前草

• 通草

• 除蟲草／除虫草

• 香草

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

草

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa)
• Nanori: そ (so), や (ya), かや (kaya), しげ (shige)

Compounds

Derived terms

香草 (こうそう, kōsō): fragrant herb 薬草 (やくそう, yakusō): medicinal herb or plants 霊草 (れいそう, reisō): mysterious or mystical herb or plants 草書 (そうしょ, sōsho) -- grass script (cursive writing) 草冠 (くさかんむり, kusakanmuri) -- "grass crown" 草木 (くさき, kusaki) -- grass(es) and trees - plants 草原 (そうげん, sōgen) -- grassland, meadow 穀草 (こくそう, kokusō): cereal; rice grasses 草薙の剣 (くさなきのつるぎ, Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi): Kusanagi no Tsurugi 七草の節句 (ななくさのせっく, nanakusa no sekku): the festival of seven herbs ぺんぺん草 (ぺんぺんぐさ, ペンペングサ, penpengusa): shepherd's purse

Synonyms

• (grass): 艸

References

JIS: 4170 Kuten: 3380 Shift JIS: 9190 EUC-JP: C1F0 Frequency: 967 Nelson: 3939

New Nelson: 5032 Halpern: 2263 Halpern Learners: 1450 Heisig: 224 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 3k6.13

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.ꜛsa/

Noun

草 (hiragana くさ, romaji kusa)

1. grass; a weed
2. a herb

See also

• 芝生 (しばふ, shibafu)
• 香草 (こうそう, kōsō)
• ハーブ (hābu)

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Korean

Hanja

草 (cho)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 초 (McCune-Reischauer: ch'o, Yale: cho)

• Name (hangeul): 풀()

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Vietnamese

Han character

草 (thảo, tháu, xáo thượng)

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References

• Nom Foundation