HSK Guide

部首 45a 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

部首 453 画0 汉字

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.

汉字 filed under

No published character on HSK Guide is filed under this radical yet. 汉字库.