Word Meaning 草原

そうげん sougen

草原 is read as そうげん (sougen) and means grassy field.

Meaning

English

  1. grassy field
  2. grassland
  3. meadow
  4. grass-covered plain
  5. savannah
  6. prairie
  7. steppe

Reading

Kana

そうげん

Romaji

sougen

Writing Variants

  • 草原 くさはら kusahara
  • 草原 くさわら kusawara

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N3 Jōyō Grade 2 Kanken 9級 Rank 85 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

大草原

だいそうげん

hahahaha

草原雷鳥

そうげんらいちょう

greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

草花

くさばな

flower

草木

そうもく

plants

くさ

ninja

草食

そうしょく

herbivorous

草地

くさち

grassland

草書

そうしょ

highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters)

草分け

くさわけ

pathfinder

草野球

くさやきゅう

grass-lot baseball

草取り

くさとり

weeding

草紙

そうし

a text written entirely in kana

Example Sentences

5

はるになるとそうげんにはながさく。

Flowers bloom in the meadow when spring comes.

Wild animals roamed across the plains.

The spacious plain spread as far as the eye can see, dotted with groves here and there.

Kotaro found a large swallowtail butterfly and chased him about 20 meters inside the grass field.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.