Grass radical 艹 (cǎo): 84 characters

body{font-family:sans-serif;max-width:860px;margin:40px auto;padding:0 20px;color:#1a1a2e}Grass radical 艹 (cǎo): 84 characters艹 (cǎo) is Kangxi radical no. 140, “grass”. In this form it is written with 3 strokes.艹 (cǎo) on top is grass: plants, herbs, flowers, tea and vegetables, and medicine made from them.The characters range from 4 to 22 strokes. 5 of them already appear in HSK 3.0 levels 1–2, and 10 have a full word page of their own.Good ones to start with: 茶 (chá) tea, 菜 (cài) dish / vegetable / cuisine, 花 (huā) flower / spend (money), 药 (yào) medicine / drug.Characters with this radical4 strokes

艺 (yì) - art

5 strokes

节 (jié) - festival

艾 (ài) - Chinese mugwort

6 strokes

芒 (máng) - blade

芝 (zhī) - sesame

7 strokes

花 (huā) - flower / spend (money)

芭 (bā) - a plantain or banana palm

苍 (cāng) - dark blue

芳 (fāng) - fragrant

芬 (fēn) - perfume

苏 (sū) - to awaken

芯 (xīn) - the pith of the rush plant

芽 (yá) - bud

芦 (lú) - rushes, reeds

8 strokes

苹 (píng) - apple

苦 (kǔ) - bitter / hard / painful

范 (fàn) - pattern

茄 (qié) - eggplant

英 (yīng) - petal, flower, leaf

苟 (gǒu) - careless, frivolous, illicit

茎 (jīng) - stalk

苛 (kē) - severe

茂 (mào) - thick, lush, dense

苗 (miáo) - sprout

若 (ruò) - to seem

9 strokes

茶 (chá) - tea

药 (yào) - medicine / drug

草 (cǎo) - grass / herb / plant

荐 (jiàn) - to recommend

荣 (róng) - glory

荡 (dàng) - to wash

荒 (huāng) - desolate

茫 (máng) - vast, with no clear boundary

荫 (yìn) - shade

荧 (yíng) - to shine, to shimmer

兹 (zī) - now

10 strokes

获 (huò) - to get

荷 (hé) - Holland

莲 (lián) - lotus

莽 (mǎng) - thicket, underbrush

莫 (mò) - do not

莹 (yíng) - bright

11 strokes

菜 (cài) - dish / vegetable / cuisine

萄 (táo) - grapes

著 (zhù) - to make known

营 (yíng) - camp

菊 (jú) - chrysanthemum

菌 (jūn) - germ

菇 (gū) - mushroom

萝 (luó) - radish

萌 (méng) - to sprout

萍 (píng) - duckweed

菩 (pú) - herb, aromatic plant

萨 (sà) - Buddhist diety

萎 (wěi) - to wither

萧 (xiāo) - mournful, desolate

12 strokes

落 (luò) - fall / drop / settle

葡 (pú) - Portugal

葱 (cōng) - spring onion / scallion

蒂 (dì) - stem

董 (dǒng) - to supervise

葬 (zàng) - to bury (the dead)

葫 (hú) - bottle-gourd

13 strokes

蓝 (lán) - blue

蓄 (xù) - to store up

蒙 (méng) - to cover

蓬 (péng) - disheveled, unkempt

蒜 (suàn) - garlic

蒸 (zhēng) - to evaporate

14 strokes

蔼 (ǎi) - friendly

蔽 (bì) - to cover

蔓 (màn) - creeper

蔑 (miè) - to disdain

15 strokes

蕉 (jiāo) - banana

蔬 (shū) - vegetables

蕴 (yùn) - to collect, to gather, to store

16 strokes

薄 (bó) - meager

薯 (shǔ) - potato

薪 (xīn) - firewood

蕾 (lěi) - bud

17 strokes

藏 (cáng) - to conceal

19 strokes

蘑 (mó) - mushroom

藻 (zǎo) - splendid, magnificent

22 strokes

蘸 (zhàn) - to dip in (ink, sauce etc)

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Radicals and component data: Make Me a Hanzi by Shaunak Kishore (dictionary.txt, derived from Unihan and CJKlib), used under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later. Make Me a Hanzi LGPL v3

Stroke counts: Make Me a Hanzi graphics.txt, derived from the Arphic PL KaitiM GB and Arphic PL UKai fonts by Arphic Technology, under the Arphic Public License - the same stroke data the animations use. Arphic Public License