Kanji Detail for 莽 - "grass, thicket, overgrown, large, rough"

莽

Non-Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
莽 means "grass, thicket, overgrown, large, rough."
1. Grass - Weeds.
2. Thicket - For grass to grow densely.
3. Overgrown - Covered with grass.
4. Large - Big.
5. Rough - Crude; coarse.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

grass; grassy field

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

thicket, underbrush; poisonous

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) dense growth of grass; (literary) vast; boundless; (bound form) boorish; reckless

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

thicket, underbrush; rude, impertinent

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

Grass. Such as 宿莽, which is 宿草 (withered grass). Also 莽莽 is the appearance of deep grass. Also being in the wilderness is called 草莽之臣 (a minister from the wilderness). | A shrub name. Generally called 莽草 (illicium). Leaves are long elliptical. Has transparent small dots. Petals are slender. Color is white. Smells bad and is poisonous. Most abundant in Jiangxi and Hubei. Called 水莽子. Can kill rats. | Rash or careless. Such as 鹵莽 (reckless), 莽撞 (rash).
Onyomi

boh(ぼう)

moh(もう)
Kunyomi

kusa(くさ)
Strokes

13 strokes
Radical

艸艹 (kusa・kusakammuri・soko)
Related Keywords
grass weeds thicket grow densely overgrown covered large big rough crude coarse