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Keyword
grass
  • weeds
  • herbs
  • pasture
  • write
  • draft
Frequency
#967
Strokes
9
Grade
1
JLPT (old)
N2
Heisig
238
Readings
ソウ55%
くさ40%
ぐさ5%
Mnemonic
Blades of grass shoot up early in the morning and sway in the breeze, and sheep crowd around the tender grass.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
草くさ
grass; weed; herb; thatch; not genuine; substandard
Noun
煙草タバコ
tobacco; cigarette; cigar; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
Noun
草そう案あん
draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
Noun
草くさの根ね
roots of grass; grassroots (e.g. of a political party); rank and file; places hidden from sight
Expression
草わ綿た
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
Noun
草そう原げん
grassy field; grassland; meadow; grass-covered plain; savannah; prairie; steppe
Noun
起き草そう
drafting (e.g. a bill); drawing up
Noun
仕し草ぐさ
gesture; movement; action; behavior; behaviour; bearing; mannerism; acting; performance
Noun
草くさ分わけ
pathfinder; trailblazer; early settler; pioneer; founder; originator; groundbreaker
Noun
草そう食しょく
herbivorous; plant-eating; graminivorous
No-adjective
語かたり草ぐさ
story; topic (on everyone's lips); (the stuff of) legend
Noun
草くさ野や球きゅう
amateur baseball; sandlot baseball
Noun
ほうれん草そう
spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
Noun
草そう紙し
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
Noun
草そう
draft; rough copy; highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
Noun
草くさ花ばな
flower; flowering plant
Noun
眩草くらら
Sophora flavescens
Noun
夏なつ草くさ
summer grass
Noun
牧ぼく草そう
pasture; grass
Noun
草くさ木き
plants; vegetation
Noun
草くさ刈かり
mowing; mower
Noun