ruò

rushes

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

grass

弱 sound component

  Sound component

ruò

  

weak

Evolution

蒻 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蒻 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

ruò

rushes; young rush (Typha japonica), a kind of cattail

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

8803rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+84BB

Shuowen

“蒻,蒲子,可以為平席。从艸,弱聲。”


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