grass

Origin & mnemonic

The grass radical originates from an oracle-bone pictograph depicting three blades of grass sprouting from earth. The modern form with three horizontal strokes on top clearly represents the structure of grass rising from the ground.

Mnemonic: Three horizontal strokes on top resemble three grass blades sprouting from the base directly below them.

• 茷fá🔊

  denseness of grass-foliage

  9 strokes

• 茸róng🔊

  (bound form) (of newly sprouted grass) soft and fine; downy

  9 strokes

• 茹rú🔊

  to eat

  9 strokes

• 茼tóng🔊

  Chrysanthemum coronarium

  9 strokes

• 茽zhòng🔊

  vegetation growing thickly

  9 strokes

• 荀xún🔊

  (archaic) name of a plant mentioned in ancient texts

  9 strokes

• 荁huán🔊

  (vegetable)

  9 strokes

• 荃quán🔊

  (fragrant plant)

  9 strokes

• 荄gāi🔊

  roots of plant

  9 strokes

• 荅dā🔊

  variant of 答[da1]

  9 strokes

• 荆jīng🔊

  chaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus)

  9 strokes

• 荇xìng🔊

  yellow floating heart (Nymphoides peltatum)

  9 strokes

• 荈chuǎn🔊

  Thea sinensis

  9 strokes

• 荏rěn🔊

  beefsteak plant (Perilla frutescens)

  9 strokes

• 荑tí🔊

  (grass)

  9 strokes

• 荔lì🔊

  litchi

  9 strokes

• 荙dá🔊

  plantago major

  9 strokes

• 荚jiá🔊

  pod (botany)

  9 strokes

• 荛ráo🔊

  fuel

  9 strokes

• 荜bì🔊

  bean

  9 strokes

• 荝cè🔊

  plant genus Aconitum, aka monkshood or wolf's bane (used as poison and medicine)

  9 strokes

• 荞qiáo🔊

  used in 蕎麥|荞麦[qiao2 mai4]

  9 strokes

• 荟huì🔊

  to flourish

  9 strokes

• 荠jì🔊

  see 薺菜|荠菜[ji4 cai4]

  9 strokes

• 荤hūn🔊

  strong-smelling vegetable (garlic etc)

  9 strokes

• 荨qián🔊

  used in 蕁麻|荨麻[qian2 ma2]

  9 strokes

• 荩jìn🔊

  Arthraxon ciliare

  9 strokes

• 荪sūn🔊

  fragrant grass

  9 strokes

• 荫yīn🔊

  (bound form) shade (of a tree)

  9 strokes

• 荬mǎi🔊

  used in 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜[qu3 mai5 cai4]

  9 strokes

• 荭hóng🔊

  used in 葒草|荭草[hong2 cao3]

  9 strokes

• 荮zhòu🔊

  (dialect) to wrap with straw

  9 strokes

• 莒jǔ🔊

  alternative name for taro (old)

  9 strokes

• 莚yán🔊

  bamboo mat

  9 strokes

• 莛tíng🔊

  stalk of grass

  9 strokes

• 莫mò🔊

  do not

  10 strokes

• 莎shā🔊

  katydid (family Tettigoniidae)

  10 strokes

• 莉lì🔊

  used in 茉莉[mo4 li4]

  10 strokes

• 莱lái🔊

  name of weed plant (fat hen, goosefoot, pigweed etc)

  10 strokes

• 华huá🔊

  magnificent

  10 strokes

• 荷hé🔊

  lotus

  10 strokes

• 获huò🔊

  (literary) to catch; to capture

  HSK 4

  10 strokes

• 庄zhuāng🔊

  variant of 莊|庄[zhuang1]

  10 strokes

• 莲lián🔊

  lotus

  10 strokes

• 刍chú🔊

  to mow or cut grass

  10 strokes

• 茝chǎi🔊

  aromatic plant, possibly Dahurian angelica 白芷[bai2 zhi3] (archaic)

  10 strokes

• 荥xíng🔊

  used in 滎陽|荥阳[Xing2 yang2] (the name of a place in Henan)

  10 strokes

• 荧yíng🔊

  a glimmer

  10 strokes