艸

Translingual

Stroke order

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• 艹 (when used as a head Chinese radical)

Etymology

屮 + 屮

艸	艸	艸
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

艸 (radical 140 艸+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 山山 (UU), X山山 (XUU), four-corner 2244₇)

1. grass
2. KangXi radical 140

Usage notes

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 1,902 characters (out of 40,000) that use this radical, making it the most commonly used radical.

Descendants

• Index:Chinese radical/艸

References

• KangXi: page 1017, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30638
• Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3172, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8278

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Cantonese

Hanzi

艸 (jyutping cou2, Yale chou2)

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Hakka

Hanzi

艸 (POJ tsháu, Guangdong ts'au³; ts'au³, ts'o³ [Hailu, Siyan], Hagfa Pinyim cau3, co3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

艸

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさ (kusa)

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Korean

Hanja

艸 (hangeul 초, revised cho, McCune-Reischauer ch'o, Yale cho)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

艸 (pinyin cǎo (cao3), Wade-Giles ts'ao³)

1. grass

Usage notes

The character 草 is now used for this sense.

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Vietnamese

Han character

艸 (thảo, tháu)