刍 literally means cut grass for feeding animals. Today it mostly survives in the humble word 刍议 — 'my crude opinion,' a modest way to introduce one's own view, like grass-cutter's talk.
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刍chú
hay; cut fodder
The simplified form, reshaped from the traditional 芻, which pictured a hand gathering a bundle of grass. The modern five-stroke shape is a stylized cursive residue and no longer breaks into independent parts; learners read it as one unit. Indexed under the knife radical by tradition.
Filed under radical 彐 (jì, #58) by convention. 彐 is not a separate component in 刍, so no strokes are highlighted.
