Translingual

Stroke order

Alternative forms

• 艹 (when used as a head Chinese radical)
• 䒑 (non-classical form)

Han character

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

1. grass
2. Kangxi radical #140, ⾋ ‎(“grass”).
3. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №12

Usage notes

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1,902 characters (out of 40,000) that use this radical, making it the most commonly used radical.

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/艸

References

• KangXi: page 1017, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30638
• Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3172, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8278

Chinese

Pronunciation

Definitions

艸

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Usage notes

The character 草 (cǎo) is now used for this sense.

References

• (Min Nan) Kaifang Cidian

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

艸 (thảo, cỏ)

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