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菜 = 采 + 艹

菜 is a Japanese kanji written with 11 strokes, listed here under the keyword “vegetable”. It is built from 采 (grab) and 艹 (mugwort). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 793.

Keyword
vegetable
RTK frame
793
Strokes
11
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
サイ
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
な
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
овощ
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
菜 vegetables

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 采 grab
  2. 艹 mugwort

How to find 菜 without knowing its reading

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

Open 菜 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.