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
- —本草plants; medicinal herbs
- —野草wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers
- —薬草medicinal herb
- —草々hurry; rush; flurry; simple; brief; quick; rough; crude; careless; inadequate; yours sincerely; yours in haste
- —草屋thatched hut
- —草堂thatched hut; monks cell; (my) humble abode
- —草創beginning; inauguration
- —桜草primrose; Siebold's primrose (Primula sieboldii); cherry blossom primrose; Japanese woodland primrose
- —草本herbaceous plant; herb
- —草根grass roots
- —草庵thatched hut
- —芳草fragrant herb
- —蕗草liquorice; licorice
- —鋸草Siberian yarrow (Achillea sibirica); achillea
- —鷺草fringed orchid (Pecteilis radiata); white egret flower; sagiso
- —褥草straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock)
- —曙草Swertia bimaculata (species of felwort)
- —草炭herbaceous peat
- —碇草horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum)
- —草房thatched hut