KanjiDB
Radical Index : : 草

,
ソウ, くさ, くさ-, -ぐさ,
grass, weeds, herbs, pasture, write, draft
This kanji has 9 strokes: 6 strokes in the "grass" radical (くさ) and 3 other strokes
Sample Compounds (200):
1.

くさわけ

pioneer, pathfinder, originator, founder, trailblazer
2.

そうあん

draft, draught
3.

そうげん

grass-covered plain, grasslands, meadows, savannah, prairie, steppe
4.

みちくさ

wayside grass, loitering on the way
5.
けた
ほしくさをつけたうま

horse loaded with hay
6.
稿
そうこう

notes, draft, draught, manuscript
7.

くさき

plants, vegetation
8.

しばくさ

lawn, sod, turf
9.

そうもく

plants, vegetation
10.

くさばな

flower, flowering plant
11.

きそう

drafting, draughting, drawing up a bill
12.
れる
くたびれる

to get tired, to wear out
13.

くさ

grass
14.

ぞうり

zori (Japanese footwear sandals)
15.

ざっそう

weed
16.

じょそう

weeding
17.

ほうれんそう

spinach
18.

そうしょ

cursive script, "grass" kanji
19.

たばこ

tobacco, cigarettes
20.

くさかり

mowing, mower
21.

くさのね

grassroots, rank and file, the roots of grass
22.

しぐさ

action, acting, gesture, bearing, treatment, behavior, behaviour
23.

そうしょく

herbivorous
24.

たばこや

tobacconist
25.

ぼくそう

pasture, grass
26.

とうだいくさ

wartweed (Euphorbia helioscopia), sun splurge
27.

ほしぐさ

hay, dry grass
28.

りょうぎりたばこ

plain cigarette
29.

すいそう

water plant
30.

くさむす

to be grassy, to be verdant
31.

わらじむし

wood louse, wood lice, slater
32.

たばこいれ

tobacco container (esp. a tobacco pouch)
33.

ほんぞうがく

study of medicinal herbs, pharmacognosy
34.

ほととぎすそう

toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta)
35.

そうげつりゅう

Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
36.
いのころ
いのころぐさ

spike-eared grass
37.

うきくさ

a floating weed, duckweed, precarious
38.

こそうねつ

hay fever, pollinosis (allergy to pollen)
39.

まむしぐさ

Arisaema serratum (species of jack-in-the-pulpit)
40.

そうあん

thatched hut
41.

とうだいぐさか

Euphorbiaceae (plant family)
42.

まきたばこ

cigarette
43.

るりからくさ

baby blue-eyes (name of plant)
44.

みずくさ

water plant
45.

ちょうろぎ

Chinese artichoke
46.

くさもち

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
47.

たばこぼん

tobacco tray
48.

あさうらぞうり

hemp-soled sandals
49.

ななくさ

the seven spring flowers, the seven fall flowers, the seven autumn flowers
50.

くさはら

grass-covered plain, grasslands, meadows, savannah, prairie, steppe
51.

そうほん

herbs
52.

おとぎぞうし

fairy-tale book
53.

うきくさかぎょう

precarious trade
54.

おとぎぞうし

fairy-tale book
55.

はえとりぐさ

Venus flytrap, Venus''s flytrap
56.

とうだいぐさか

Euphorbiaceae (plant family)
57.

ほしくさ

hay
58.

ひやめしぞうり

crudely made zori with straw fastenings
59.
西
せいようのこぎりそう

yarrow (Achillea millefolium), milfoil
60.

ちょろぎ

Chinese artichoke
61.

もしおぐさ

seaweed used in making salt, anthology
62.

しおくぐ

Carex scabrifolia (species of sedge)
63.

うめくさ

(page) filler
64.

ななくさがゆ

rice gruel containing the seven plants of spring
65.

そうほんそう

herbaceous layer
66.
つる
つるくさ

vine, creeper
67.

うきぐさかぎょう

precarious trade, unstable occupation, itinerant trade
68.

みすくさ

common cattail (Typha latifolia), common bulrush, common reed mace
69.

はえとりそう

Venus flytrap, Venus''s flytrap
70.

くさひばり

grass cricket
71.

ほしくさをかえす

to turn over hay
72.

こいぐさ

lovesickness
73.

あおひとくさ

the people, the public, citizenry
74.

そうそう

beginning, inauguration
75.

もぐさ

(aquarium) water-plants
76.

したくさ

undergrowth, weeds beneath a tree
77.

まくらのそうし

The Pillow Book (by Sei Shonagon)
78.

しちぐさ

article for pawning
79.

くさがれ

autumn, fall, withering of the grass
80.

くさまくら

overnight stay when traveling (travelling)
81.
ほうれん
ほうれんそう

spinach
82.

うきよぞうし

(Edo-period variety of) realistic literature, popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period
83.

かたりぐさ

story, topic
84.

じょくそう

straw or hay (layed out in barns for livestock)
85.

くさや

thatched hut
86.

どくそう

poisonous plant
87.

れんげそう

Chinese milk vetch
88.

あおくさ

green grass
89.

そうそうき

beginning, outset
90.

たねんそう

perennial plant
91.

かなぞうし

story book written in kana (or in kana mixed with Chinese characters) in the early Edo period (primarily for the enlightenment and entertainment of women and children)
92.

つるくさ

vine, creeper
93.

しちぐさをながす

to forfeit a pawned article
94.
チャルメル
チャルメルそう

Mitella stylosa (species of miterwort)
95.

うきよぞうし

(Edo-period variety of) realistic literature, popular stories of everyday life in the Edo period
96.

くちづきたばこ

cigarette with a mouthpiece
97.

あしたぐさ

Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)
98.

そうおく

thatched hut
99.

ぶたくさ

ragweed
100.

ほしくさ

hay
101.

つゆくさ

Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis)
102.

あおうきくさ

duckweed
103.

くさぞうし

picture book
104.

まつよいぐさ

evening primrose
105.

かなぞうし

story in the kana
106.

たみくさ

people, populace
107.

そうこん

grass roots
108.

えびすぐさ

sicklepod (Senna obtusifolia)
109.

うきぐさかぎょう

precarious trade, unstable occupation, itinerant trade
110.

こうそう

herb, fragrant grass
111.

あしたば

Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)
112.

くさやね

thatched roof
113.

にそくのわらじ

many irons in the fire, engaged in two trades at the same time, wearing two hats
114.

かんぞう

liquorice, licorice
115.

わらぞうり

straw zori
116.

ゆきわりそう

hepatica
117.

くさむら

clump of bushes, grassy place, thicket, jungle, the bush
118.

たいまそう

hemp
119.

とぎぞうし

fairy-tale book
120.

たみぐさ

people, populace
121.

おおばこ

plantain
122.

そうこんぼくひ

roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine
123.

くさきもねむるうしみつとき

the dead of night
124.

いそう

posthumous works
125.

ふうりんそう

Canterbury bell
126.

きざみたばこ

shredded tobacco
127.

そうがな

cursive form of man''yougana, man''yougana written in sousho style, an intermediate stage between hiragana and man''yougana
128.

にそくのわらじ

many irons in the fire, engaged in two trades at the same time, wearing two hats
129.

おじぎそう

mimosa, sensitive plant
130.

かぎたばこ

snuff
131.

ちぐさ

great variety of flowering plants
132.

くさずもう

amateur sumo wrestling
133.

ちゃひきぐさ

wild oat (Avena fatua), wild oats
134.

なつくさ

summer grass
135.

ねむりぐさ

mimosa
136.

わかくさ

green grass, young (fresh) grass
137.

そうこんもくひ

roots of herbs and barks of trees used in Chinese medicine
138.

くさぼけ

Japanese quince, (Japanese) flowering quince, Maule''s quince, Japonica, Chaenomeles japonica
139.

いちねんせいそうほん

annual herb
140.

ろそう

liquorice, licorice
141.

ねなしぐさ

duckweed, rootless person
142.

にねんそう

biennial plant
143.

たばこ

tobacco, cigarettes
144.

せんにちそう

globe amaranth
145.

そうそう

brevity, rudeness, hurry, Yours Sincerely
146.

ちゃひきぐさ

wild oat (Avena fatua), wild oats
147.

なつぐさ

summer grass
148.

まぐさ

lintel, lintel beam
149.

わかくさいろ

bright green, chartreuse green
150.

くさむす

to be grassy, to be verdant
151.

くさもち

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort
152.

いちねんそう

annual (plant)
153.
寿
ふくじゅそう

pheasant''s eye
154.

ざぜんそう

eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
155.

そうか

flower, flowering plant
156.

にりんそう

soft windflower, Anemone Flaccida
157.

つめくさ

white Dutch clover
158.

かやつりぐさ

galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria)
159.

あさくさのり

dried laver
160.

そうたい

character written in "sousho" style
161.

あさぎりそう

silvermound aretemisia
162.

はなびしそう

California poppy
163.

わすれなぐさ

forget-me-not
164.

あきくさ

plants which flower in autumn (fall)
165.

そうし

written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll), a text written entirely in kana, graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries), notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.), rough draft
166.

くさやきゅう

grass-lot baseball
167.

いちぼくいっそう

a single tree or blade of grass, every stick and stone (of a place)
168.

さきくさ

lucky grass
169.

さぎそう

fringed orchid
170.

てながえび

freshwater prawn (any species in the genus Macrobrachium)
171.

ちちくさ

Metaplexis japonica
172.

のこぎりそう

Siberian yarrow (Achillea sibirica), achillea
173.

くぐ

Pacific island flatsedge (Cyperus cyperoides)
174.

つくろいぐさ

Japanese mugwort
175.

くさだんご

mugwort-flavored rice dumpling (flavoured)
176.

あけび

chocolate-vine (Akebia quinata), fiveleaf, fiveleaf akebia, (food) fruit of the akebia
177.

かすみそう

baby''s-breath
178.

もちぐさ

Japanese mugwort
179.

しぶくさ

Japanese dock (a plant) (Rumex japonicus)
180.

くさいち

flower market during obon
181.

くさば

blades of grass
182.

うらしまそう

Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
183.

べんけいそう

orpine (plant), stonecrop
184.

さくらそう

primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens), Siebold''s primrose (Primula siebold)
185.

はぶそう

coffee senna (Senna occidentalis)
186.

きんぎょそう

snapdragon
187.

しゃそう

galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria), nut grass (Cyperus rotundus)
188.

くさち

meadow, grassland
189.

つりがねそう

campanula, bellflower
190.

かやつりぐさ

galingale (any plant of genus Cyperus, esp. species Cyperus microiria)
191.

やかいそう

moonflower (Ipomoea alba)
192.
宿
しゅっこんそう

perennial plant
193.

そうし

written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll), a text written entirely in kana, graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries), notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.), rough draft
194.

えいそう

draft poem, draught poem
195.

ははこぐさ

cottonweed
196.

くたびれもうけ

thankless, waste of effort, much ado about nothing
197.

はえとりぐさ

Venus flytrap, Venus''s flytrap
198.

くがいそう

Veronicastrum sibiricum (species of flowering plant)
199.

すみれぐさ

Fuji dawn (species of violet, Viola mandshurica)
200.

そうそう

brevity, rudeness, hurry, Yours Sincerely

Kuten Code: 3380
EUC Code: c1f0
Shift-JIS Code: 9190
JIS Code: 4170
Unicode: 8349
Radical Index: 140
Frequency Rank: 967
Jouyou Grade: 1
DeRoo Code: 1955
Four Corner code: 4440.6
"New Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 2263
"Modern Reader's Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 3939
"New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary" Index: 5032
"Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide" Index: 652
"A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd Edition" Index: 57
"Kanji in Context" Index: 567
"Kanji Learners Dictionary" Index: 1450
"Essential Kanji" Index: 118
"A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese" Index: 106
"Tuttle Kanji Cards" Index: 77
"The Kanji Dictionary" Index Code: 3k6.13
"Kanji & Kana 2nd Edition" Index: 249
Morohashi Volume.Page: 9.654
Gakken Index: 162
"Remembering The Kanji" Index: 705
"Japanese Names" Index: 224
Korean Reading: cho
Pinyin: cao3

Radical Index : : 草

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