艸

See also: 草, 丱, and 艹

艸	U+8278, 艸 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8278

← 艷
[U+8277]

CJK Unified Ideographs

艹 →
[U+8279]

⾋	U+2F8B, ⾋ KANGXI RADICAL GRASS

← ⾊
[U+2F8A]

Kangxi Radicals

⾌ →
[U+2F8C]

Translingual

Stroke order

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)

Kangxi radical #140, ⾋.
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

Appendix:Chinese radical/艸
𨒽, 𨴔, 𡳡, 𡴬, 𠱭, 𢘿, 𢄆, 𨑆, 𢠞, 𤀻

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. Duplication of 屮 (“grass”). 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)

grass, vegetation

Readings

Go-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
Kan-on: そう (sō)^{←さう (sau, historical)}
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

[noun] grass

[noun] a weed

[noun] a herb

[noun] a scout, a spy (from the way one would hide in the grass to observe enemy troops)

[noun] (figurative, slang, rare) pubic hair

[noun] (hanafuda) (usually in hiragana) alternative name of the yaku 草(くさ)短(たん) (kusatan)

[prefix] a fake, a mimic, not the real thing

[prefix] 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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