艸

See also: 草, 丱, and 艹

Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 艹 (when used as a head Chinese radical)
• 䒑 (non-classical form)

Han character

艸 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 山山 (UU) or 難山山 (XUU), four-corner 2244₇, composition ⿰屮屮)

1. Kangxi radical #140, ⾋.
2. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №12

Usage notes

• In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1,902 characters (out of 40,000) that use this radical, making this the most commonly used radical.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/艸
• 𨒽, 𨴔, 𡳡, 𡴬, 𠱭, 𢘿, 𢄆, 𨑆, 𢠞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1017, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30638
• Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3172, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8278

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 艸
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) – grass.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 艸 – see 草 (“herbaceous plant; herb; weed; wort; grass; forb; Used in names of some woody plants; etc.”). (This character is an ancient form of 草).

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Japanese

Kanji

艸

(Hyōgai kanji)

Grass, vegetation.

Readings

• On (unclassified): そう (sō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa, 艸)

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Korean

Hanja

艸 • (cho) (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 艸 (thảo, cỏ)

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