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艸

艸 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. 草。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

象形。枝や茎の柔らかい植物を象る。「くさ」を意味する漢語｛草｝を表す字。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

grass, plants, grass radical (no. 140)

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウ
Kun (native)
  • くさ
Other languages
  • 拼音cao3
  • 한글cho
  • Hán-ViệtThảo

Basics

Strokes
6 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+8278

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰屮屮

Words using this kanji

  • 艸部そうぶ部首「⾋」で分類した漢字の一群。kanji "grass radical" (radical 140)

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(2 results)

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-3-3
Four Corner
2244.7
Spahn–Hadamitzky
0a6.14