- 原稿 — manuscript / draft
 - 原稿用紙 — manuscript paper
 - 草稿 — rough draft
 - 初稿 — first draft
 - 改稿 — revised draft
 - 投稿 — submission (to a magazine/site)
 
稿 uses the radical 禾 (grain) plus the phonetic part 高 (コウ). Historically it referred to “stalks of grain,” then by extension to “materials gathered together,” and in modern Japanese it means a written draft or manuscript.
            原稿を 締切までに 提出した。
            I submitted the manuscript by the deadline.
          
            草稿を 読み直して、表現を 修正した。
            I reread the rough draft and revised the wording.
          
