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.

• 菺jiān🔊

  Althaea rosea

  11 strokes

• 菻lǐn🔊

  ancient name for east Roman empire

  11 strokes

• 菼tǎn🔊

  Miscanthus sacchariflorus (Amur silvergrass)

  11 strokes

• 菽shū🔊

  legumes (peas and beans)

  11 strokes

• 菾tián🔊

  sugar beet

  11 strokes

• 萁qí🔊

  stalks of pulse

  11 strokes

• 萃cuì🔊

  collect

  11 strokes

• 萄táo🔊

  used in 葡萄[pu2 tao5]

  11 strokes

• 萅chūn🔊

  old variant of 春[chun1]

  11 strokes

• 萆bì🔊

  castor seed

  11 strokes

• 苌cháng🔊

  plant mentioned in Book of Songs, uncertainly identified as carambola or star fruit (Averrhoa carambola)

  11 strokes

• 萋qī🔊

  Celosia argentea

  11 strokes

• 萏dàn🔊

  lotus

  11 strokes

• 萐shà🔊

  (auspicious herb)

  11 strokes

• 萑huán🔊

  a kind of reed

  11 strokes

• 萕jì🔊

  old variant of 薺|荠[ji4]

  11 strokes

• 萘nài🔊

  naphthalene C10H8

  11 strokes

• 萚tuò🔊

  fallen leaves and bark

  11 strokes

• 萜tiē🔊

  terpene (chemistry)

  11 strokes

• 萣dìng🔊

  see 茄萣[Qie2 ding4]

  11 strokes

• 萤yíng🔊

  firefly

  11 strokes

• 莴wō🔊

  used in 萵苣|莴苣[wo1 ju4]

  11 strokes

• 药yào🔊

  medicine

  HSK 2

  12 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

• 苇wěi🔊

  reed

  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

• 荝cè🔊

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

  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