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艹grass

grass. 3 strokes. 30 characters in HSK 3.0 Levels 1 to 6 are written with it.

How to write 艹

What it tells you about a character

Of the 30 characters below, 23 are pictophonetic with 艹 as the half that carries the meaning — the other half carries the sound. That is the use of knowing a radical: it narrows what a new character is about before you know how to say it.

The 30 characters

Print a 米字格 practice sheet for the 艹 family

HSK 1 · 2

HSK 2 · 6

HSK 3 · 7

HSK 4 · 3

HSK 5 · 4

HSK 6 · 8

Words they appear in