Jisho

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16 strokes
Radical:
metal, gold 金 (釒)
Parts:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鋸歯 【キョシ】 teeth of a saw, serration
  • 鋸屑 【ノコクズ】 sawdust
  • 胴付鋸 【ドウツキノコ】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 縦挽き鋸 【タテビキノコ】 ripsaw

Kun reading compounds

  • 鋸 【のこぎり】 saw, musical saw
  • 鋸鱝 【のこぎりえい】 sawfish (Pristidae spp.)
  • 胴付鋸 【どうつきのこ】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 縦挽き鋸 【たてびきのこ】 ripsaw
  • 鋸 【のこぎり】 saw, musical saw
  • 鋸鱝 【のこぎりえい】 sawfish (Pristidae spp.)
  • 胴付鋸 【どうつきのこぎり】 saw with a spine, tenon saw, back saw
  • 回し引き鋸 【まわしびきのこぎり】 bracket saw, sabre saw, saber saw

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
ju4, ju1
Korean:
geo

Spanish

  • sierra (para madera o metal)

Portuguese

French

4878 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2522 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2184 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1552 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
40505 Morohashi
6297 New Nelson (John Haig)
2759 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2782 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8a8.19 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-8 SKIP code
8716.4 Four corner code
1-21-88 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
92f8 Unicode hex code

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

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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