- 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.
