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
- —除草剤herbicide
- —多年草perennial plant
- —緋衣草scarlet sage (Salvia splendens); red salvia
- —百日草zinnia
- —弁慶草orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
- —牧草地pasture; grassland; meadow
- —本草学study of plants, minerals, and animals for use in Chinese medicine; herbalism; pharmacognosy
- —宿根草perennial plant
- —金魚草snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
- —薄雪草Leontopodium japonicum (species of perennial closely related to edelweiss)
- —除草器weeder
- —二年草biennial; biennial plant
- —蓮華草Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
- —絵草紙ezōshi (Edo-period illustrated story book)
- —月見草fourwing evening primrose (Oenothera tetraptera); fragrant evening primrose (Oenothera stricta); large-flowered evening primrose (Oenothera glazioviana)
- —千日草globe amaranth
- —草仮名cursive form of man'yōgana; man'yōgana written in sōsho style
- —草創期initial stages; first stage; early period; pioneer days; beginning; outset
- —福寿草pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)
- —風鈴草Canterbury bell