薮
- Meaning
- thicket bush underbrush grove
- On reading
- ソウ
- Kun reading
- やぶ
- Nanori
- —
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 140
- Grade
- —
- JLPT
- —
- Frequency
- 2109
Stroke order
Words using 薮
- 竹やぶ たけやぶ — bamboo grove
- 八幡の藪知らず やわたのやぶしらず — Yawata no Yabushirazu (bamboo grove in Chiba; impossible to find one's way out of according to popular legend)
- 藪をつついて蛇を出す やぶをつついてへびをだす — to stir up trouble for oneself
- やぶ蛇 やぶへび — unnecessary trouble brought upon oneself
- 薮蛇になる やぶへびになる — to only make work for oneself
- 藪 やぶ — thicket
- ヤブ医者 やぶいしゃ — inept doctor
- 藪にらみ やぶにらみ — squint
- ヤブ蚊 やぶか — Aedes (genus of mosquitoes)
- 藪から棒に やぶからぼうに — out of the blue
- 藪柑子 やぶこうじ — spearflower (Ardisia japonica)
- 藪の中 やぶのなか — being a mystery (due to conflicting testimony)
- 藪ワラビー やぶワラビー — pademelon
- 藪蕎麦 やぶそば — yabu soba
- 薮茗荷 やぶみょうが — East Asian pollia (Pollia japonica)
- 藪枯らし やぶがらし — bushkiller (species of herbaceous plant, Cayratia japonica)
- 薮入り やぶいり — holiday granted to servants on the 16th of the first and seventh months
- 草薮 くさやぶ — thicket
- 姫薮蘭 ひめやぶらん — Liriope minor (flowering plant in the Asparagaceae family)
- 薮野兎 やぶのうさぎ — European hare (Lepus europaeus)
- 笹藪 ささやぶ — thicket of bamboo grass
- 藪沢 そうたく — wetland with abundant vegetation
- 薮蔭 やぶかげ — thicket
- 藪椿 やぶつばき — wild camellia (Camellia japonica)
- 薮紫 ヤブムラサキ — Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa mollis)