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

稿

15 strokes
Radical:
grain
Parts:
Variants:
draft, copy, manuscript, straw
Kun:
わらしたがき
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1400 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 稿 【コウ】 manuscript, version, draft
  • 稿料 【コウリョウ】 manuscript fee, payment for a piece of writing
  • 送稿 【ソウコウ】 document transmission
  • 遺稿 【イコウ】 posthumous manuscripts

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
gao3
Korean:
go

Spanish

  • borrador
  • copia
  • manuscrito

Portuguese

  • esboço
  • cópia
  • manuscrito
  • palha

French

  • brouillon
  • copie
  • manuscrit
  • paille
1266 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1340 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3299 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1505 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1590 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1120 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1172 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1231 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1445 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1574 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
832 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1138 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
901 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
25220 Morohashi
1231 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4166 New Nelson (John Haig)
892 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
958 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1785 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2249 2001 Kanji
5d10.5 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-10 SKIP code
2092.7 Four corner code
1-25-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7a3f Unicode hex code