Jisho

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蕗

16 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
口 夂 艾 止 足
butterbur, bog rhubarb
Kun:
ふき
On:
ロ、 ル
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
JLPT level N1

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 蕗草 【ロソウ】 liquorice, licorice

Kun reading compounds

  • 蕗 【ふき】 giant butterbur (Petasites japonicus), Japanese sweet coltsfoot
  • 蕗の薹 【ふきのとう】 edible flower bud of a giant butterbur plant
  • 蕗 【ふき】 giant butterbur (Petasites japonicus), Japanese sweet coltsfoot

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
lu4
Korean:
ro

Spanish

  • petasites (planta)

Portuguese

French

2564 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2230 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
3007 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1536 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2096 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
31964X Morohashi
2372 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5203 New Nelson (John Haig)
2370 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2455 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3k13.4 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-13 SKIP code
4416.4 Four corner code
1-41-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8557 Unicode hex code

草

9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
十 艾 日
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