艸

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See also: 草, 丱, and 艹
艸 U+8278, 艸
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8278
← 艷
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 艹 →
⾋ U+2F8B, ⾋
KANGXI RADICAL GRASS
← ⾊
 		Kangxi Radicals ⾌ →

Translingual

Stroke order
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Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #140, ⾋.
  2. Shuowen Jiezi 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

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 艸
alternative forms 艹
䒑

Glyph origin

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

Pictogram (象形) – grass blades. Basically, it's 屮 written twice. See also the top component of 春 in its original version.

䒑, used in 前, is sometimes presented as a variant of this character, but it actually represents a foot 止 over a boat.

Definitions

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

Japanese

Kanji

艸

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. grass, vegetation

Readings

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

Etymology

Kanji in this term
艸
くさ
Hyōgai
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 艸 – see the following entry.
【草くさ】1
grass
a weed
a herb
a scout, a spy (from the way one would hide in the grass to observe enemy troops)
(figurative, slang, rare) pubic hair
a fake, a mimic, not the real thing
amateur, small-time
(This term, 艸, is an alternative spelling (uncommon) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

艸: Hán Nôm readings: thảo, cỏ

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