Chinese Character Wiki

菅

jiān

coarse grass

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

grass

官 sound component

官  Sound component

guān

  

official

Evolution

菅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
菅 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
菅 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
菅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

菅  

jiān

coarse grass, themedia forskali; (grass); Themeda forsbali

Most common words with 菅
Freq.
Word
Meaning

草菅人命

human life as grass (idiom); to kill people like scything grass

菅

(grass)

菅原

Sugawara (Japanese surname)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5235th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83C5

Shuowen

“菅，茅也。从艸，官聲。”


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