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草 = 早 + 艹

草 is a Japanese kanji written with 9 strokes, listed here under the keyword “grass”. It is built from 早 (early) and 艹 (mugwort). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 238.

Keyword
grass
RTK frame
238
Strokes
9
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ソウ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
くさ, くさ-, -ぐさ
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
трава
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
草 grass

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 早 early
  2. 艹 mugwort

How to find 草 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “early” + “mugwort”. 草 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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