薮 — readings, stroke count and radical

  • Non-Jōyō kanji
  • 16 strokes

Stroke order

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

Meaning

thicket, bush, underbrush, grove

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • ソウ
Kun (native)
  • やぶ
Other languages
  • 拼音sou3
  • 한글su
  • Hán-ViệtTẩu
  • Hán-ViệtSác
  • Hán-ViệtSú

Basics

Strokes
16 strokes
Radical
艸(くさ)
JIS level
Level 1
Unicode
U+85AE

Components

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

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱艹数

Words using this kanji

  • 薮蔭やぶかげthicket
  • 薮紫ヤブムラサキJapanese beautyberry (Callicarpa mollis)
  • 薮茗荷やぶみょうがEast Asian pollia (Pollia japonica)
  • 薮入りやぶいりholiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months
  • 薮野兎やぶのうさぎEuropean hare (Lepus europaeus), brown hare
  • 薮蛇になるやぶへびになるto only make work for oneself, to stir up a hornet's nest, to put one's foot in one's mouth

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(8 results)

Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
2-3-13
Four Corner
4444.8
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3k15.1
Heisig
2483