屮
テツ, サ, ひだりて, ふるくさ

left hand, old grass radical (no. 45)

JLPT0 G13 S0 F5000

A depiction of cut grass, indicating a *grass shoot* (compare 艸). Graphically, this character is properly written as it appears on the right-hand side of 艸, but 屮 is the JIS form. Also, the grass shoot character should be distinguished from a separate character written 屮 and with the reading サ; this is a variant form of 左.

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