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.

• 萤yíng🔊

  firefly

  11 strokes

• 蒂dì🔊

  stem (of fruit)

  12 strokes

• 落luò🔊

  to fall or drop

  HSK 4

  12 strokes

• 葛gé🔊

  kudzu (Pueraria lobata)

  12 strokes

• 叶yè🔊

  leaf

  12 strokes

• 葬zàng🔊

  to bury (the dead)

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 董dǒng🔊

  to supervise

  12 strokes

• 葵kuí🔊

  used in the names of various herbaceous plants

  12 strokes

• 葱cōng🔊

  scallion

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 蒋Jiǎng🔊

  surname Jiang

  12 strokes

• 葆bǎo🔊

  dense foliage

  12 strokes

• 䓕wěi🔊

  (arch.) type of grass

  12 strokes

• 䓬zhuó🔊

  (chemistry) tropylium ion

  12 strokes

• 茻mǎng🔊

  (archaic) overgrown vegetation; dense growth of grass

  12 strokes

• 菐pú🔊

  thicket

  12 strokes

• 萦yíng🔊

  (literary) to wind around

  12 strokes

• 萩qiū🔊

  Lespedeza bicolor

  12 strokes

• 萮yú🔊

  used in 山萮菜[shan1 yu2 cai4]

  12 strokes

• 萰liàn🔊

  Ampelopsis japonica (creeper with root used in TCM)

  12 strokes

• 萱xuān🔊

  old variant of 萱[xuan1]

  12 strokes

• 萹biān🔊

  see 萹蓄[bian1 xu4]

  12 strokes

• 萻ān🔊

  small Buddhist temple

  12 strokes

• 萼è🔊

  old variant of 萼[e4]

  12 strokes

• 葄zuò🔊

  straw cushion

  12 strokes

• 葅zū🔊

  variant of 菹[zu1]

  12 strokes

• 葇róu🔊

  Elsholtria paltrini

  12 strokes

• 葍fú🔊

  weeds

  12 strokes

• 葎lǜ🔊

  Humulus japonicus

  12 strokes

• 葑fēng🔊

  turnip

  12 strokes

• 葖tū🔊

  radish; daikon

  12 strokes

• 葙xiāng🔊

  see 青葙, feather cockscomb (Celosia argentea)

  12 strokes

• 葚shèn🔊

  used in 桑葚[sang1 shen4]

  12 strokes

• 葜qiā🔊

  used in 菝葜[ba2 qia1]

  12 strokes

• 葡pú🔊

  used in 葡萄[pu2 tao5]

  12 strokes

• 葥qián🔊

  Rubus palmatus

  12 strokes

• 葧bó🔊

  Heleocharis plantaginea

  12 strokes

• 葩pā🔊

  corolla of flower

  12 strokes

• 葫hú🔊

  used in 葫蘆|葫芦[hu2 lu5]

  12 strokes

• 葭jiā🔊

  reed

  12 strokes

• 葳wēi🔊

  luxuriant

  12 strokes

• 葴zhēn🔊

  Physalis alkekengi

  12 strokes

• 葶tíng🔊

  Draba nemerosa bebe carpa

  12 strokes

• 葸xǐ🔊

  feel insecure

  12 strokes

• 葹shī🔊

  Xanthium strumarium

  12 strokes

• 葺qì🔊

  to repair

  12 strokes

• 葽yāo🔊

  Polygala japonica

  12 strokes

• 蒄guān🔊

  (herb mentioned in ancient texts)

  12 strokes

• 蒇chǎn🔊

  to complete

  12 strokes