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Kanji Information Sheet for 草 ( 
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| English: grass weeds herbs pasture write draft | On-Yomi: ソウ | Kun-Yomi: くさ くさ- -ぐさ そ や |
Bushu (Radical) Info:
艾 (カイ, ゲイ, もぐさ, よもぎ, おさ.める, か.る) – moxa; sagebrush; wormwood; mugwort
艸 (ソウ, くさ, くさかんむり, そうこう) – grass; plants
艾 (カイ, ゲイ, もぐさ, よもぎ, おさ.める, か.る) – moxa; sagebrush; wormwood; mugwort
艸 (ソウ, くさ, くさかんむり, そうこう) – grass; plants
Henshall Mnemonic: grass is early plant
Levels: JLPT N3 | JLPT 2 (old) | Grade 1
Frequency: #967 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Frequency: #967 of the 2500 most used kanji in newspapers
Common Words and/or Phrases Using this Kanji:
Click any individual kanji to view a similar information sheet for it.Click [K] to look up the word's individual character(s) at WWWJDIC.
Click [D] to look up the word at WWWJDIC (definition is the same but other useful features exist).
Click [Jisho] to look up the word at Jisho.org.
JLPT N5 Words
JLPT N4 Words
JLPT N2 Words
- 草臥れる [くたびれる]
(v1) to get tired; to wear out [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草履 [ぞうり]
(n) zoori (Japanese footwear); sandals [K] [D] [Jisho]
Other Popular Words Not Classified by JLPT
- 除草 [じょそう]
(n,vs) weeding [K] [D] [Jisho] - 雑草 [ざっそう]
(n) weed [K] [D] [Jisho] - 干し草を付けた馬 [ほしくさをつけたうま]
horse loaded with hay [K] [D] [Jisho] - 道草 [みちくさ]
(n) wayside grass; loitering on the way [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草の根 [くさのね]
(exp,n) grassroots; rank and file; the roots of grass [K] [D] [Jisho] - 煙草屋 [たばこや]
(n) tobacconist [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草案 [そうあん]
(n) draft [K] [D] [Jisho] - 起草 [きそう]
(n,vs) drafting; drawing up a bill [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草花 [くさばな]
(n) flower; flowering plant [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草刈り [くさかり]
(n) mowing; mower [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草原 [そうげん]
(n) grass-covered plain; grasslands; meadows; savannah; prairie; steppe [K] [D] [Jisho] - 仕草 [しぐさ]
(n) action; acting; gesture; bearing; treatment; behavior [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草稿 [そうこう]
(n) notes; draft; manuscript [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草書 [そうしょ]
(n) cursive script; "grass" kanji [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草食 [そうしょく]
(n) herbivorous [K] [D] [Jisho] - 芝草 [しばくさ]
(n) lawn; sod; turf [K] [D] [Jisho] - 菠薐草 [ほうれんそう]
(n) spinach [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草分け [くさわけ]
(n) pioneer; pathfinder; originator; founder; trailblazer [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草木 [くさき]
(n) plants; vegetation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 草木 [そうもく]
(n) plants; vegetation [K] [D] [Jisho] - 牧草 [ぼくそう]
(n) pasture; grass [K] [D] [Jisho]
Acknowledgments
The sofware used to generate this kanji information uses the EDICT and KANJIDIC files. These files are the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group at Monash University and are used in conformance with the Group's license.NOTE: I converted the sources just mentioned years ago and have never really updated so there may be some missing or incorrect information that has been addressed in the original sources but not here.
The first Stroke Order image used on this page is courtesy of Ulrich Apel's excellent open source KanjiVG project. The second image is from the folks at the excellent Jisho Japanese-English dictionary site and it too is based on KanjiVG.
Classifying the kanji and popular vocabulary by the new JLPT levels was done by consulting Jonathan Waller‘s JLPT Resources page, renshuu, Wictionary, and Nihongo Ichiban.
The Henshall Mnemonics are the copyright of Tuttle Publishing and are the result of the hard work by Professor Henshall. See the list I used here.
If you are curious about the lexicography shown in the word definitions, visit the WWWJDIC abbreviations and codes guide and the JMdict/Edict Lexicographical details page.