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.

• 蕮xì🔊

  plantain (Plantago asiatica)

  15 strokes

• 蕰yùn🔊

  hippuris or mare's tail

  15 strokes

• 蕲qí🔊

  (herb)

  15 strokes

• 蕴yùn🔊

  to accumulate

  15 strokes

• 蕸xiá🔊

  water-lily leaves

  15 strokes

• 蕺jí🔊

  Houttuynia cordata

  15 strokes

• 薁yù🔊

  used in 蘡薁|𮐨薁[ying1 yu4]

  15 strokes

• 荙dá🔊

  plantago major

  15 strokes

• 薇wēi🔊

  Osmunda regalis, a species of fern

  16 strokes

• 薄báo🔊

  thin

  HSK 4

  16 strokes

• 蕾lěi🔊

  bud

  16 strokes

• 姜jiāng🔊

  ginger

  HSK 7

  16 strokes

• 荐jiàn🔊

  to recommend

  16 strokes

• 薛xuē🔊

  wormwood like grass (classical)

  16 strokes

• 蕗lù🔊

  leucacene

  16 strokes

• 蕶líng🔊

  withered (plant, herb etc)

  16 strokes

• 蕹wèng🔊

  water spinach or ong choy (Ipomoea aquatica), used as a vegetable in south China and southeast Asia

  16 strokes

• 蕻hóng🔊

  used in 雪裡蕻|雪里蕻[xue3 li3 hong2]

  16 strokes

• 薃hào🔊

  Cyperus amuricus

  16 strokes

• 薅hāo🔊

  to weed

  16 strokes

• 荟huì🔊

  to flourish

  16 strokes

• 薏yì🔊

  see 薏苡[yi4 yi3]

  16 strokes

• 薐léng🔊

  old name for spinach

  16 strokes

• 薜bì🔊

  Ficus pumila

  16 strokes

• 莶xiān🔊

  used in 豨薟|豨莶[xi1 xian1]

  16 strokes

• 薢xiào🔊

  woody climbing plant

  16 strokes

• 薤xiè🔊

  Allium bakeri

  16 strokes

• 薧kǎo🔊

  dried food

  16 strokes

• 薨hōng🔊

  death of a prince

  16 strokes

• 薪xīn🔊

  (literary) firewood; fuel

  16 strokes

• 薮sǒu🔊

  marsh

  16 strokes

• 薯shǔ🔊

  variant of 薯[shu3]

  16 strokes

• 薽zhēn🔊

  (grass)

  16 strokes

• 𬞟pín🔊

  clover fern (Marsilea quadrifolia)

  16 strokes

• 藏cáng🔊

  to conceal

  HSK 6

  17 strokes

• 借jiè🔊

  variant of 借[jie4]

  HSK 2

  17 strokes

• 薰xūn🔊

  sweet-smelling grass

  17 strokes

• 苧níng🔊

  (used as a bound form in 薴烯|苧烯[ning2 xi1], limonene)

  17 strokes

• 薶mái🔊

  old variant of 埋[mai2]

  17 strokes

• 薷rú🔊

  used in 香薷[xiang1 ru2]

  17 strokes

• 薸piāo🔊

  duckweed

  17 strokes

• 薹tái🔊

  Carex dispalatha

  17 strokes

• 荠jì🔊

  see 薺菜|荠菜[ji4 cai4]

  17 strokes

• 薻zǎo🔊

  old variant of 藻[zao3]

  17 strokes

• 薾ěr🔊

  luxuriant growth of flower

  17 strokes

• 薿nǐ🔊

  luxuriant (of plants)

  17 strokes

• 藁gǎo🔊

  variant of 槁[gao3]

  17 strokes

• 藄qí🔊

  (fern)

  17 strokes