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.

• 苤piě🔊

  used in 苤藍|苤蓝[pie3 lan5]

  8 strokes

• 苺méi🔊

  old variant of 莓[mei2]

  8 strokes

• 苔tái🔊

  moss; lichen; liverwort

  8 strokes

• 茎jīng🔊

  stalk

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 苯běn🔊

  benzene

  8 strokes

• 苗miáo🔊

  sprout

  HSK 7

  8 strokes

• 苑yuàn🔊

  (literary) enclosed area for growing trees, keeping animals etc; imperial garden; park

  8 strokes

• 苒rǎn🔊

  luxuriant growth

  8 strokes

• 苓líng🔊

  fungus

  8 strokes

• 苕sháo🔊

  see 紅苕|红苕[hong2 shao2]

  8 strokes

• 苘qǐng🔊

  Indian mallow (Abutilon theophrasti)

  8 strokes

• 苙lì🔊

  (herb)

  8 strokes

• 苛kē🔊

  severe

  8 strokes

• 苜mù🔊

  clover

  8 strokes

• 苞bāo🔊

  bud

  8 strokes

• 苟gǒu🔊

  (literary) if indeed

  8 strokes

• 苠mín🔊

  multitude

  8 strokes

• 苢yǐ🔊

  used in 芣苢[fu2 yi3]

  8 strokes

• 苩pā🔊

  old variant of 葩[pa1]

  8 strokes

• 苪bǐng🔊

  bright

  8 strokes

• 苫shān🔊

  straw mat

  8 strokes

• 苲zhǎ🔊

  see 苲草[zha3 cao3]

  8 strokes

• 苴jū🔊

  (hemp)

  8 strokes

• 苶nié🔊

  weary

  8 strokes

• 苷gān🔊

  licorice

  8 strokes

• 苹píng🔊

  used in 蘋果|苹果[ping2 guo3]

  8 strokes

• 苻fú🔊

  Angelica anomala

  8 strokes

• 苾bì🔊

  (phonetic)

  8 strokes

• 茀fú🔊

  luxuriant growth

  8 strokes

• 茁zhuó🔊

  to display vigorous, new growth

  8 strokes

• 茂mào🔊

  luxuriant

  8 strokes

• 茄jiā🔊

  phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夾|夹[jia2] is more common

  8 strokes

• 茅máo🔊

  reeds

  8 strokes

• 茆máo🔊

  variant of 茅[mao2]

  8 strokes

• 茇bá🔊

  betel

  8 strokes

• 茉mò🔊

  used in 茉莉[mo4 li4]

  8 strokes

• 茊zī🔊

  old variant of 茲|兹[zi1]

  8 strokes

• 茌chí🔊

  used in 茌平[Chi2 ping2] (the name of a place in Shandong)

  8 strokes

• 茏lóng🔊

  Polygonum posumbu

  8 strokes

• 茑niǎo🔊

  parasitic mistletoe (Loranthus parasiticus), esp. on the mulberry

  8 strokes

• 茓xué🔊

  to store grain by enclosing it in a woven mat rolled into a vertical cylinder

  8 strokes

• 茕qióng🔊

  alone

  8 strokes

• 茚yìn🔊

  indene (chemistry)

  8 strokes

• 药yào🔊

  medicine

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 茶chá🔊

  tea

  HSK 1

  9 strokes

• 草cǎo🔊

  variant of 草[cao3]

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 兹zī🔊

  (literary) this

  HSK 7

  9 strokes

• 范fàn🔊

  pattern

  9 strokes