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)

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

• 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. 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 [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 [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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