紫草

紫草 in English

zǐ cǎo
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)

Character breakdown

Stroke order

Le caractère 草 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 草 Show the animation

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

  • Warring States script: 草 Warring States script 春秋晚期或戰國早期.秦
  • Clerical script: 草 Clerical script 東漢
  • See all 7 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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