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薹 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「艹」

道
1University / general (hardest) ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
On
タイたい · tai
Kun
とう・あぶらなtō · aburana
Meaning
the flower stalk of a vegetable

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Grass 艹 with 臺 as phonetic: the stalk a vegetable sends up to flower.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • 薹が立つとうがたつ

    to go to seed; to be past one’s prime

  • 薹とう

    a flower stalk

More words with this kanji

  • 蕗の薹ふきのとう

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

菜(な)の薹(とう)が立(た)って硬(かた)くなる。

The greens have gone to seed and turned tough.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

薹が立つ薹立stand艾mugwor…芒an awn芬fragra…芫a medi…芟to mow…兌to exc…彽to lin…紿to dec…詒to dec…詆to vil…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 艹Map of reading タイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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