草 — grass

Grade 1 kanji · 9 strokes · on'yomi sou · kun'yomi kusa.

Grass radical on top of 'early' — grass is the earliest thing to appear in spring.

Example words

• 草 — kusa — grass
• 草原 — sougen — grassland

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