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

Alternative forms
  • 艹 (as top component in Han characters)
  • 䒑 (non-classical form)

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

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

Pictogram (象形) – grass blades.

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

Japanese

Kanji
艸

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. grass, vegetation

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

Etymology
Kanji in this term
艸
くさ
Hyōgaiji
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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