菖 — 11 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
道準1University / general ／ 11 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
- On
- ショウ
- Kun
- —
- Meaning
- sweet flag; iris
Origin
Grass 艹 with 昌 as phonetic: the sweet flag that grows at the water's edge.
Stroke order
Compounds
- 菖蒲しょうぶ
sweet flag; iris
- 花菖蒲はなしょうぶ
Japanese iris
Example
端午の節句に菖蒲湯に入った。
We took a sweet-flag bath for the Boys' Festival.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)