The kanji 草: meaning, readings and stroke order

草

Meaning: grass
On reading: ソウ sou
Kun reading: くさ kusa
Strokes: 9
Radical: 艸 grass
Level: Level 1 · grade 1

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: cỏ (thảo)
Japanese: くさ。
Korean: 풀 (초)
Chinese: 草

Readings, words and example sentences

ソウ sou · on reading

草そう原げん
grassland, meadow
ひろい 草そう原げんを見わたします。
I look out over the wide grassland.

くさ kusa · kun reading

草くさ
grass
にわに 草くさがたくさん生えています。
Lots of grass is growing in the yard.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.