Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
Kun:
くさくさ--ぐさ
On:
ソウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N3
967 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 草 【ソウ】 draft, rough copy, highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters), grass style
  • 草案 【ソウアン】 draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
  • 除草 【ジョソウ】 weeding
  • 起草 【キソウ】 drafting (e.g. a bill), drawing up

Kun reading compounds

  • 草 【くさ】 grass, weed, herb, thatch, ninja, marijuana, cannabis, not genuine, substandard, LOL, haha
  • 草刈り 【くさかり】 mowing, mower
  • 水草 【みずくさ】 water plant, aquatic plant, waterweed, hydrophyte
  • 若草 【わかくさ】 green grass, young (fresh) grass

Readings

Japanese names:
そ、 や
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cao3
Korean:
cho

Spanish

  • hierba
  • planta

Portuguese

  • grama
  • erva daninha
  • ervas
  • pasto
  • escrever
  • esboçar

French

  • herbe
  • mauvaise herbe
  • plantes
  • pâturage
  • écrire
  • ébauche
106 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
57 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
162 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
705 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3939 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
118 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
865 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
934 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
249 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
249 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
567 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
652 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2813 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1450 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1953 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
229 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30945P Morohashi
2263 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5032 New Nelson (John Haig)
224 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
238 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
77 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1955 2001 Kanji
3k6.13 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4440.6 Four corner code
1-33-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8349 Unicode hex code

4 strokes
Radical:
knife, sword 刀 (刂)
Parts:
reap, cut, clip, trim, prune
Kun:
か.る
On:
ガイカイ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1738 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 刈除 【ガイジョ】 removal, cut off, mowing
  • 刈除 【ガイジョ】 removal, cut off, mowing

Kun reading compounds

  • 刈る 【かる】 to cut (grass, hair, etc.), to mow, to clip, to trim, to prune, to shear, to reap, to harvest
  • 刈萱 【かるかや】 Themeda triandra var. japonica (variety of kangaroo grass), Cymbopogon tortilis var. goeringii (variety of grass closely related to lemongrass), thatching grass, thatching sedge

Readings

Japanese names:
かっ、 かり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi4
Korean:
ye

Spanish

  • segar
  • podar
  • cosechar

Portuguese

  • corte
  • acerto
  • aparar

French

  • moissonner
  • faucher
  • tondre
  • tailler
  • couper
1092 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1722 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
666 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1540 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1090 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
50 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1282 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1356 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1612 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
183 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
32 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
16 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
17 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1500 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
1859 Morohashi
28 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
452 New Nelson (John Haig)
1488 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1600 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1023 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2943 2001 Kanji
2f2.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-2-2 SKIP code
4200.0 Four corner code
1-20-02 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5208 Unicode hex code

18 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:
Variants:
sickle, scythe, trick
Kun:
かま
On:
レンケン
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1587 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 鎌 【かま】 sickle, leading question, trick question, sickle-and-chain (weapon), spear with curved cross-blades, gooseneck tenon and mortise joint, noisiness, part of a fish around the gills
  • 鎌倉 【かまくら】 Kamakura (city)
  • 大鎌 【おおがま】 scythe
  • 大脳鎌 【だいのうかま】 falx cerebri, cerebral falx

Readings

Japanese names:
かた、 かね
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lian2
Korean:
gyeom

Spanish

  • hoz
  • guadaña

Portuguese

French

  • faucille
  • serpe
  • faux
  • duper
1277 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4902 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1996 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
2750 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2257 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1130 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
2212 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1155 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1572 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1613 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
40693X Morohashi
1760 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6326 New Nelson (John Haig)
1599 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1725 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
2864 2001 Kanji
8a10.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-10 SKIP code
8813.7 Four corner code
1-19-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
938c Unicode hex code