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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 Thatch search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
艸 草 see styles |
cǎo cao3 ts`ao tsao takakusa たかくさ |
variant of 草[cao3] (1) kanji "grass radical" (radical 140); (2) grass crown; (out-dated kanji) (1) grass; weed; herb; thatch; (2) (archaism) ninja; (prefix) (3) not genuine; substandard; (surname) Takakusa |
苫 see styles |
shān shan1 shan toma とま |
straw mat; thatch woven mat (of sedge, hay, etc.); (surname) Toma Thatch; mat; mourning. |
茅 see styles |
máo mao2 mao megumu めぐむ |
reeds; rushes (kana only) cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica); grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching; (female given name) Megumu Thatch. |
茨 see styles |
cí ci2 tz`u tzu ibara いばら |
Caltrop or puncture vine (Tribulus terrestris); to thatch (a roof) (1) thorny shrub; (2) wild rose; briar; (3) thorn; (4) (archit) cusp; (surname, female given name) Ibara |
包茅 see styles |
bāo máo bao1 mao2 pao mao |
bundled thatch |
茅葺 see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
草葺 see styles |
kusabuki くさぶき |
(irregular okurigana usage) thatching; thatch; thatched roof |
萱葺 see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(out-dated kanji) (noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass; (surname) Kayabuki |
葺く see styles |
fuku ふく |
(transitive verb) to roof (a house with some material); to thatch; to shingle; to tile |
蓬亂 蓬乱 see styles |
péng luàn peng2 luan4 p`eng luan peng luan hōran |
matted (of straw or hair); unkempt; overgrown; scraggly; thatch disheveled |
覆苫 复苫 see styles |
fù shān fu4 shan1 fu shan fukusen |
a thatch |
迦奢 see styles |
jiā shē jia1 she1 chia she kasha |
kāśa, a species of grass, used for mats, thatch, etc.; personified as one of Yama's attendants. M. W. Eitel says a broom made of it and used by Śākyamuni 'is still an object of worship'. |
かや葺 see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
茅ぶき see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
茅葺き see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
茅蓋頭 茅盖头 see styles |
máo gài tóu mao2 gai4 tou2 mao kai t`ou mao kai tou bōkaizu |
A handful of thatch to cover one's head, a hut, or simple monastery. |
草ぶき see styles |
kusabuki くさぶき |
thatching; thatch; thatched roof |
草葺き see styles |
kusabuki くさぶき |
thatching; thatch; thatched roof |
萱ぶき see styles |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(out-dated kanji) (noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
刈り葺く see styles |
karifuku かりふく |
(transitive verb) to thatch (a roof) |
サッチケー島 see styles |
sacchikeetou / sacchikeeto サッチケーとう |
(place-name) Thatch Cay (island) |
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 |
Variations: |
kusabuki くさぶき |
(See かやぶき,藁葺) thatching; thatch; thatched roof |
Variations: |
kayabuki かやぶき |
(noun - becomes adjective with の) thatch roof; thatching a roof with grass |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Thatch | 薩奇 萨奇 | sà qí / sa4 qi2 / sa qi / saqi | sa ch`i / sachi / sa chi | |
Thatch | サッチ | sacchi / sachi | ||
Cao Kusa Grass | 草 | sou / kusa / so / kusa | cǎo / cao3 / cao | ts`ao / tsao |
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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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.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
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