屮 Radical 45 — a young sprout, a blade of grass just breaking the soil
chè (fourth tone, falling)
a young sprout, a blade of grass just breaking the soil
Radical 453 strokes0 characters
Where the shape comes from
A single blade pushing up out of the ground, root hairs spreading below — the plant radical cut in half. Doubled and set side by side it becomes 艸, the grass radical seen everywhere today as 艹, so that every character topped with a grass crown is, underneath, two of these blades standing together; alone, it is almost never written, kept mostly for the dictionary’s own bookkeeping.
characters filed under 屮
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