Talk:草

This character has a different stroke count depending on the language due to Han Unification &mdash; these articles should include such info. From the Wikipedia page:


 * For example, the traditional Chinese glyph for "grass" uses four strokes for the "grass" radical, whereas the simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean glyphs use three. But there is only one Unicode point for the grass character (草, U+8349) regardless of writing system.

&mdash; Hippietrail 03:11, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * The "stroke count" listed here appears to be historical, as neither form of the glyph actually has twelve strokes as listed here; there are nine in simplified and ten in traditional, which is how zhongwen.com and japanese.about.com  describe it.  Saying the character has 12 strokes, as this page and the Unihan index  do, is based on the full form of the radical, 艸, which has six strokes, not the composing form, which has three simplified and four traditional.
 * BTW, this means we need to severely overhaul Wiktionary:Chinese total strokes index, which is based on the Unicode values—several of these radicals, not just the "grass" one, have fewer strokes in composition, e.g. 犬 and 水. —Muke Tever 16:41, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

88.163.252.240 19:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC) The stroke order is Wrong in the picture. (ref: jisho.org, see 花 in this wiktionary too, same grass key, same way of writing) 88.163.252.240 19:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC)Saadeva

Mandarin readings
Can it be added in which contexts the two different Mandarin readings are used? 24.29.228.33 05:03, 22 December 2009 (UTC)


 * No longer relevant.—suzukaze (t・c) 23:03, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

ja: 草 as internet slang
It seems like 草 can also be used as an interjection like to mean "lol" due to  resembling grass. The terms and  are derived from this. —suzukaze (t・c) 04:57, 12 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Anonymous thoughts on the grammar of the phrase. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 02:34, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Stroke order
艹 doesn't seem to be right. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 19:15, 1 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Fixed by User:AugPi. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 08:48, 2 October 2020 (UTC)