艸 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「艸」
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- On
- ソウそう · sō
- Kun
- くさkusa
- Meaning
- grass; the grass radical
Stroke order
Origin
Two sprouts 屮 side by side: grass. It is the original form of the grass radical.
Compounds
- 艸くさ
grass
- 草くさ
the usual writing
Example
艸は「草」のもとの字だ。
It is the original form of the character for grass.
Nearby characters
The line style shows how they connect
CompoundRadicalReading
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)