薹 — 17 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
道1University / general (hardest) ／ 17 strokes ／ Radical「艹」
- On
- タイ
- Kun
- とう・あぶらな
- Meaning
- the flower stalk of a vegetable
Origin
Grass 艹 with 臺 as phonetic: the stalk a vegetable sends up to flower.
Stroke order
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
Example
菜の薹が立って硬くなる。
The greens have gone to seed and turned tough.
Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)