30 strokes in total
- Hiragana:
- ぼたんからくさ
- Alphabet:
- botankarakusa
- How to write 牡丹唐草
- 牡: male of animals; bolt of door
- 丹: cinnabar (native HgS); vermilion (artificial HgS used as pigment)
- 唐: Tang dynasty; Chinese
- 草: grass, straw, thatch, herbs
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