草

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Kanji 3.1.1 Readings 3.1.2 Compounds 3.2 Noun 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] 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, herbs

[edit] 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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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

草 (jyutping cou2, Yale chou2)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

草 (grade 1 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa)

[edit] Compounds

• 草書
• 草冠
• 草木
• 草原

[edit] Noun

草 (hiragana くさ, romaji kusa)

1. grass; a weed
2. a herb

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

草
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 풀()

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] 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

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[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

草 (*tsɑ̌u)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

草 (thảo, tháu, xáo)