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.

• 蓫zhú🔊

  (weed)

  13 strokes

• 蔀bù🔊

  (literary) to cover; to shelter

  13 strokes

• 蔚wèi🔊

  Artemisia japonica

  14 strokes

• 蔼ǎi🔊

  friendly

  14 strokes

• 蔡Cài🔊

  surname Cai

  14 strokes

• 卜bó🔊

  used in 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

  14 strokes

• 蔓màn🔊

  creeper

  14 strokes

• 蔻kòu🔊

  used in 豆蔻[dou4 kou4]

  14 strokes

• 蓰xǐ🔊

  (grass)

  14 strokes

• 蓷tuī🔊

  Leonurus macranthus

  14 strokes

• 蓸cáo🔊

  (a kind of herb)

  14 strokes

• 蓺yì🔊

  skill

  14 strokes

• 蓼liǎo🔊

  polygonum

  14 strokes

• 蓿xù🔊

  clover

  14 strokes

• 蔂léi🔊

  to entwine

  14 strokes

• 蔉gǔn🔊

  to bank up the roots of plants

  14 strokes

• 蔊hǎn🔊

  Nasturtium montanum

  14 strokes

• 蔋dí🔊

  dry

  14 strokes

• 蔌sù🔊

  (literary) vegetables

  14 strokes

• 蔑miè🔊

  defiled with blood

  14 strokes

• 蔗zhè🔊

  sugar cane

  14 strokes

• 蔘shēn🔊

  ginseng

  14 strokes

• 蔙xuàn🔊

  (herb)

  14 strokes

• 蔟cù🔊

  see 蠶蔟|蚕蔟[can2 cu4]

  14 strokes

• 蔫niān🔊

  to fade

  14 strokes

• 蔳qiàn🔊

  old variant of 蒨[qian4]

  14 strokes

• 蔷qiáng🔊

  used in 薔薇|蔷薇[qiang2 wei1]

  14 strokes

• 蔸dōu🔊

  root and lower stem of certain plants

  14 strokes

• 蔹liǎn🔊

  trailing plant

  14 strokes

• 蔺lìn🔊

  juncus effusus

  14 strokes

• 蔽bì🔊

  to cover

  14 strokes

• 蕖qú🔊

  lotus

  14 strokes

• 𮐨yīng🔊

  used in 蘡薁|𮐨薁[ying1 yu4]

  14 strokes

• 蕊ruǐ🔊

  variant of 蕊[rui3]

  15 strokes

• 䔢huá🔊

  old variant of 華|华[hua2]

  15 strokes

• 蔃qiáng🔊

  cigarette (slang) (Cantonese)

  15 strokes

• 蔬shū🔊

  vegetables

  15 strokes

• 蔾lí🔊

  chenopodiaceae

  15 strokes

• 蕃bō🔊

  see 吐蕃[Tu3 bo1]

  15 strokes

• 蕈xùn🔊

  mold

  15 strokes

• 蕉jiāo🔊

  banana

  15 strokes

• 蕍yú🔊

  common water-plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica)

  15 strokes

• 蕐huá🔊

  old variant of 華|华[hua2]

  15 strokes

• 蕔bāo🔊

  a kind of grass (old)

  15 strokes

• 蕙huì🔊

  Coumarouna odorata

  15 strokes

• 蕞zuì🔊

  to assemble

  15 strokes

• 蕠rú🔊

  variant of 茹[ru2]

  15 strokes

• 蕣shùn🔊

  Hibiscus syriacus

  15 strokes