ソウ
Meanings
Noun
1. draft; rough copy
2. highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (132 in total)
common gypsophila (Gypsophila elegans); baby's breath; babies' breath; soaproot
soft windflower; Anemone Flaccida
mimosa (Mimosa pudica); sensitive plant; touch-me-not
blue passion flower (Passiflora caerulea)
primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens); Siebold's primrose (Primula siebold)
Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)
pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)
Venus flytrap; Venus's flytrap
Trillium smallii (species of trillium)
Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)
wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers
Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
evening primrose (esp. the fourwing evening primrose, Oenothera tetraptera)
Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla); silverbeet
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica); golden poppy
Roger's bronze leaf
lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
campanula; bellflower
snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis); snow-flower
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
sweet autumn clematis (Clematis terniflora)
horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum)
eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
medicinal herb
grassy field; grassland; meadow
hurry; rush; simple; brief; rough; crude
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort; bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose
rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
Leontopodium japonicum (species of perennial closely related to edelweiss)
Siberian yarrow (Achillea sibirica); achillea
mignonette (Reseda odorata)
shield sundew (Drosera peltata); pale sundew
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
Kamchatka stonecrop (Sedum kamtschaticum)
Chelidonium japonicum (species of poppy)
Lamium album var. barbatum (variety of white deadnettle)
blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata); blue mist shrub
Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)
touch-me-not (Impatiens textori); jewelweed
Anemone nikoensis (species of anemone); ichirinso; poppy anenome
plants; vegetation
herb; fragrant grass
grassland; meadow
poisonous plant
herbivorous; plant-eating; graminivorous
notes; draft; manuscript
water plant; aquatic plant; waterweed; hydrophyte
draft (for a speech, bill, etc.)
pasture; grass
thatched hut
miracle herb; sacred herb; herb with mysterious powers
weeding
thatched hut
perennial plant
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
plantain (esp. Asian plantain, Plantago asiatica)
thatched hut; monks cell; (my) humble abode
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
annual (plant)
herbivorous; graminivorous
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
herbaceous plant; herb
draft poem
perennial plant
mountain grass; mountain weed; mountain plant
wild grasses and flowers (esp. as objects of beauty)
sudden; hurried; busy; precipitate; abrupt
grass roots
Japanese primrose (Primula japonica)
edible grass (for insects); larval food plant
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
fringed orchid (Pecteilis radiata); white egret flower; sagiso
gypsy rose (Scabiosa japonica); gipsy rose; scabiosa
Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula); plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria); northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)
Saxifraga fortunei var. alpina (species of rockfoil flower)
herbal medicine
Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)
geranium (any plant of genus Geranium)
Sanguisorba hakusanensis
lace-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis, Aponogeton madagascariensis); lattice-leaf plant
houseleek (any plant species of genus Sempervivum)
fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea); rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
Chinese mesona (Platostoma palustre)
biennial plant
Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
running and cursive scripts
winter annual; biennial; biennial plant
orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
Arabis flagellosa (species of rockcress)
toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta)
coffee senna (Senna occidentalis)
moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)
Swertia bimaculata (species of felwort)
meadowsweet (Filipendula multijuga)
pocketbook plant (any plant of genus Calceolaria)
Mexican fireplant (species of poinsettia, Euphorbia heterophylla)
yellow bird's-nest (Monotropa hypopitys); pinesap; false beechdrops
sarracenia
Lathyrus quinquenervius (species of vetchling)
Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica f. variegata); liverleaf
bastard lupine (Trifolium lupinaster); lupine clover; hop clover; trefoil
garden cress (Lepidium sativum)
cutleaf coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata); greenhead coneflower
weaselsnout (Lagotis glauca)
pogonia (Pogonia japonica) (species of orchid)
Habenaria dentata (species of bog orchid)
Liparis makinoana (species of miniature orchid)
Veronica miqueliana (species of speedwell)
chamberbitter (Phyllanthus urinaria); gripeweed; shatterstone; stonebreaker; leafflower
Carpesium divaricatum (species of flowering plant)
soapwort (Saponaria officinalis)
Eranthis pinnatifida
love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena); ragged lady; fennelflower; nigella
globe amaranth
Canterbury bell
silvermound aretemisia
straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock)
Mitella stylosa (species of miterwort)
spider flower (Cleome hassleriana)
cat's whiskers (Cleome gynandra)
bleeding heart; Dicentra spectabilis
plectranthus
thatched hut
cylindrical seat made of straw covered in fabric
mixed cursive-style man'yōgana and hiragana writing