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Kanji Detail for 草 - "grass, plant, herb"

  • Meaning

    草 means "grass, plant, herb."

    1. Grass - Plants; wild vegetation.

    2. Rough - Crude; careless; lowly; coarse.

    3. Beginning - The start; the origin.

    4. Draft - A rough written draft; a preliminary sketch.

    5. Cursive script - A type of calligraphy; grass script.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    grass; weeds; herbs; pasture; write; draft

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    grass, straw, thatch, herbs

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 草[cao3]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    grass, herbs; straw, thatch

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

    A general term for herbaceous plants. The Shuowen originally wrote it as 艸. Classics have consistently used 草. | Coarse or rough. Such as 草率 (careless), 草創 (rough beginning). All mean incomplete or not fully prepared. | The term for being in the countryside. Such as 草澤 (marshlands), 草莽 (wilderness). | The meaning of treating lightly or abandoning. Such as saying 草菅人命 (treating human life like weeds). | To draft. Such as 草檄 (drafting a dispatch), 草表 (drafting a memorial). Anything with a draft that is not yet finalized is called 草. Such as 草案 (draft proposal), 草約 (preliminary agreement). Therefore literary drafts are also called 文草. Such as 遺草 (posthumous drafts), 未定草 (unfinished drafts), and the like. | 草書 (cursive script). A type of calligraphy. Began during the Han dynasty. Wei dynasty's Zhang Zhi was called the sage of cursive script. Appears in the "Book of Calligraphy."
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