草 means “grass”

くさ · kusa

Also: weeds, herbs, pasture

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

くさ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ソウ

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The story

Summer grasses wave in endless fields, the beauty of simplicity and growth.

Often used in poetry to describe the passage of time

Its parts

• 艹 Grass/plant · Top
• 早 Early/morning · Bottom

Plants (艹) that appear early (早) in spring: grass

Words with 草

• 野草 (やそう, yasou): wild grass
• 草木 (くさき, kusaki): plants and trees
• 水草 (みずくさ, mizukusa): aquatic plants

Kanji that look like 草

• 花 (flower): 花 has 化 under the grass radical, 草 has 早: similar tops
• 苦 (bitter): 苦 has 古 under 艹, 草 has 早: both grass-radical kanji

More from Nature's Poetry

• 池 pond
• 砂 sand
• 滴 raindrop
• 霜 frost
• 露 dew
• 氷 ice
• 流 stream
• 沼 marsh
• 泉 spring
• 岸 shore
• 崖 cliff
• 庭 garden

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.