そう
Meanings
Noun
1. draft; rough copy
2. highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (135 in total)
wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers
hurry; rush; simple; brief; rough; crude
primula (any flower of genus Primula, which includes primroses, cowslips and cyclamens); Siebold's primrose (Primula siebold)
weeding
Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
campanula; bellflower
Paris tetraphylla (flowering plant closely related to herb Paris)
medicinal herb
evening primrose (esp. the fourwing evening primrose, Oenothera tetraptera)
annual (plant)
Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla); silverbeet
Japanese primrose (Primula japonica)
Saxifraga fortunei var. alpina (species of rockfoil flower)
lace-leaf plant (Ouvirandra fenestralis, Aponogeton madagascariensis); lattice-leaf plant
running and cursive scripts
grassy field; grassland; meadow; grass-covered plain; savannah; prairie
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
common gypsophila (Gypsophila elegans); baby's breath; babies' breath; soaproot
pheasant's eye (species of buttercup, Adonis ramosa)
Venus flytrap; Venus's flytrap
thatched hut
perennial plant
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
soft windflower; Anemone Flaccida
Roger's bronze leaf
mimosa (Mimosa pudica); sensitive plant; touch-me-not
blue passion flower (Passiflora caerulea)
plantain (esp. Asian plantain, Plantago asiatica)
thatched hut; monks cell; (my) humble abode
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort; bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose
lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
herbivorous; graminivorous
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
herbaceous plant; herb
draft poem
rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
perennial plant
Trillium smallii (species of trillium)
mountain grass; mountain weed; mountain plant
Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)
Swiss chard (Beta vulgaris var. cicla); silverbeet
wild grasses and flowers (esp. as objects of beauty)
sudden; hurried; busy; precipitate; abrupt
Leontopodium japonicum (species of perennial closely related to edelweiss)
grass roots
snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis); snow-flower
Monotropastrum humile (species of saprophytic plant)
edible grass (for insects); larval food plant
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
sweet autumn clematis (Clematis terniflora)
fringed orchid (Pecteilis radiata); white egret flower; sagiso
horny goat weed (Epimedium grandiflorum var. thunbergianum)
gypsy rose (Scabiosa japonica); gipsy rose; scabiosa
Reineckea carnea (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
California poppy (Eschscholzia californica); golden poppy
marigold (esp. the French marigold, Tagetes patula); plains coreopsis (Coreopsis tinctoria); northern maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum)
Siberian yarrow (Achillea sibirica); achillea
eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
mignonette (Reseda odorata)
shield sundew (Drosera peltata); pale sundew
Arisaema urashima (species of cobra lily)
Kamchatka stonecrop (Sedum kamtschaticum)
herbal medicine
biennial plant
Sogetsu school of flower arrangement
Chelidonium japonicum (species of poppy)
Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus)
geranium (any plant of genus Geranium)
Sanguisorba hakusanensis
houseleek (any plant species of genus Sempervivum)
Lamium album var. barbatum (variety of white deadnettle)
fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea); rocket larkspur (Consolida ajacis)
blue spirea (Caryopteris divaricata); blue mist shrub
Omphalodes japonica (species of flowering plant related to borage)
winter annual; biennial; biennial plant
touch-me-not (Impatiens textori); jewelweed
Anemone nikoensis (species of anemone); ichirinso; poppy anenome
Chinese mesona (Platostoma palustre)
orpine (any plant of family Crassulaceae, esp. the garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum)
globe amaranth
Canterbury bell
silvermound aretemisia
straw or hay (laid out in barns for livestock)
Arabis flagellosa (species of rockcress)
toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta)
coffee senna (Senna occidentalis)
Mitella stylosa (species of miterwort)
spider flower (Cleome hassleriana)
cat's whiskers (Cleome gynandra)
moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora)
Swertia bimaculata (species of felwort)
bleeding heart; Dicentra spectabilis
plectranthus
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)
thatched hut
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)
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
cylindrical seat made of straw covered in fabric
mixed cursive-style man'yōgana and hiragana writing