Kanji1 / 9
草 kanji
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 1 (elementary school)
On readings
ソウ
Kun readings
くさくさ--ぐさ
Words with 草
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —草子written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft
- —草卒hurried; hasty; busy; precipitate; sudden; abrupt
- —草草hurry; rush; flurry; simple; brief; quick; rough; crude; careless; inadequate; yours sincerely; yours in haste
- —霞草common gypsophila (Gypsophila elegans); baby's breath; babies' breath; soaproot
- —蓐草straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock)
- —草墩cylindrical seat made of straw covered in fabric
- —莎草galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria); nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)
- —錨草horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum)
- —雁草blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata); blue mist shrub
- —蠎草Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)
- —鴇草pogonia (Pogonia japonica)
- —烟草tobacco
- —法蓮草spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
- —法連草spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
- —鳳蓮草spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
- —不断草Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla); silverbeet
- —釣鐘草campanula; bellflower
- —絵草子ezōshi (Edo-period illustrated story book)
- —雪割草hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort; bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose
- —時鳥草toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta)