稿

音読おんよみ: コウ

訓読くんよみ: none *

画数かくすう: 15

部首ぶしゅ: のぎへん(禾)

Meaning

Draft / Manuscript / Copy

  • 原稿げんこう — manuscript / draft
  • 原稿用紙げんこうようし — manuscript paper
  • 草稿そうこう — rough draft
  • 初稿しょこう — first draft
  • 改稿かいこう — revised draft
  • 投稿とうこう — 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.

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