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草 means grass or straw in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
Depending on the context, this can also mean a manuscript, draft (of a document), or rough copy. In the botany context, it can also refer to weeds, herbs, thatch, or plants.
草 is also the first character of caoshu or sōsho, the Chinese and Japanese wild cursive script style of calligraphy.
Sometimes written in variant form 艸.
This can be the surname Sou/Sō, or the given name Kusa in Japanese (there are also other romanizations for this Kanji).
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your kusa search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
瘡 疮 see styles |
chuāng chuang1 ch`uang chuang kusa くさ |
sore; skin ulcer eczema A sore, ulcer. |
クサ see styles |
kusa クサ |
(place-name) Kusa |
九佐 see styles |
kusa くさ |
(surname) Kusa |
矩奢 see styles |
jǔ shē ju3 she1 chü she kusha |
(Skt. kuśa) |
空佐 see styles |
kuusa / kusa くうさ |
(Self Defense Force's Air Force) colonel (defence); lieutenant; major |
衢黠 see styles |
qú xiá qu2 xia2 ch`ü hsia chü hsia Kukatsu |
Kuśa |
賈作 贾作 see styles |
gǔ zuò gu3 zuo4 ku tso kusa |
engages in trade |
上茅城 see styles |
shàng máo chéng shang4 mao2 cheng2 shang mao ch`eng shang mao cheng Jōbō jō |
(上茅宮城) Kuśāgrapura, 矩奢揭羅補羅 city of Kuśa-grass palaces, or山城 the mountain city. v. 吉祥茅國. |
吉祥草 see styles |
jí xiáng cǎo ji2 xiang2 cao3 chi hsiang ts`ao chi hsiang tsao kichijousou; kichijousou / kichijoso; kichijoso きちじょうそう; キチジョウソウ |
(kana only) Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family) (or 吉祥茅); 矩奢. kuśa, auspicious grass used at religious ceremonials, poa cynosuroides. |
姑尸草 see styles |
gū shī cǎo gu1 shi1 cao3 ku shih ts`ao ku shih tsao koshi sō |
矩奢 kuśa grass, grass of good omen for divination. |
拘尸那 see styles |
jū shin à ju1 shin1 a4 chü shin a Kushina |
Kuśinagara; 拘尸那竭 or拘尸那揚羅; 拘夷那竭 (or 倶夷那竭); 倶尸那; 究施 a city identified by Professor Vogel with Kasiah, 180 miles north-west of Patna, 'capital city of the Mallas' (M. W.); the place where Śākyamuni died; 'so called after the sacred Kuśa grass.' Eitel. Not the same as Kuśāgārapura, v. 矩. |
Variations: |
kusa くさ |
(1) grass; weed; herb; thatch; (2) (archaism) ninja; (prefix) (3) not genuine; substandard; (expression) (4) (net-sl) (multiple repetitions of "w" ("LOL") resembles grass: wwwwww) (See w) LOL; haha |
Variations: |
kusa くさ |
(1) grass; weed; herb; thatch; (2) (archaism) ninja; (3) (slang) marijuana; cannabis; (prefix) (4) not genuine; substandard; (expression) (5) (net-sl) (from multiple repetitions of "w" ("LOL") resembling grass: wwwwww) (See w) LOL; haha |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Cao Kusa Grass | 草 | sou / kusa / so / kusa | cǎo / cao3 / cao | ts`ao / tsao |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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