Kanji Detail for 菅 - "sedge, grass, scholarly"

菅

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
菅 means "sedge, grass, scholarly."
1. Sedge - A general name for perennial plants of the sedge family.
2. Grass - A grass of the rice family; wild rye.
3. Sugawara - Reference to the Sugawara clan, especially Sugawara no Michizane.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

sedge

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

coarse grass, Themedia forskalii

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(grass); Themeda forsbali

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

coarse grass; Themedia forskali

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

A plant name. Leaves are slender, long, and pointed. Blue-white flowers bloom in autumn. Fruit is pointed and black. About one fen long. Sticks to clothing. Roots are short and hard like thin bamboo. Can be used to make scrub brushes. When soaked, can also be made into rope. The Zuo Zhuan says "Though there is silk and hemp, do not discard 菅 and 蒯." This is the meaning. Nowadays treating killing lightly is called 草菅人命 (treating human life like weeds).
Onyomi

kan(かん)
Kunyomi

suga(すが)

suge(すげ)
Strokes

11 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
sedge grass reed marsh wetland simple natural scholarly Sugawara Tenjin wisdom learning humble plant nature practical resilient traditional ancient deity