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)

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

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

草 (jyutping cou2, Yale chou2)

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Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Kun reading) IPA: /ku.ꜛsa/

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

• 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) Longsword"

Derived terms

• 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.

Noun

草 (hiragana くさ, romaji kusa)

1. grass; a weed
2. a herb

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Korean

Hanja

草
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 풀()

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

草 (pinyin cǎo (cao3), zào (zao4), Wade-Giles ts'ao³, tsao⁴)

Compounds

• 草庵
• 草案
• 草把
• 草草
• 草根
• 草荒
• 草料
• 草酸
• 草体
• 草原
• 草鞋
• 草菇
• 草莓
• 白花草
• 百日草
• 车前草
• 甘草
• 香草
• 益母草
• 蓍草
• 木犀草
• 紫草
• 通草
• 夏枯草
• 独活草
• 延龄草
• 牛膝草
• 除虫草
• 药草

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Middle Chinese

Han character

草 (*tsɑ̌u)

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Vietnamese

Han character

草 (thảo, tháu, xáo)

References

• Nom Foundation