草
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grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艸 +6
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 草
- Common rank
- #221
- Unicode
- U+8349
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
grass · Heisig RSH #227
flower + 早 early
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 草
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 长草区 | the rough (golf) | |
| 草字头儿 | grass radical 艹 | |
| 名草有主 | (idiom) (humorous) (of a man) already taken (male counterpart of 名花有主[ming2 hua1 you3 zhu3… | |
| 草山 | Grassy Hill (hill in Hong Kong) | |
| 水草 | aquatic plants; water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animal… | |
| 草地 | lawn; meadow; sod; turf; CL:片[pian4] | |
| 人生一世，草木一春 | Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence | |
| 海草 | seagrass | |
| 草海 | Caohai Lake, Guizhou | |
| 花草 | flowers and plants | |
| 行草 | semicursive script | |
| 草体 | see 草書|草书[cao3 shu1] | |
| 中亚草原 | Central Asian grasslands | |
| 金鱼草 | snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) | |
| 巴音布克草原 | Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains | |
| 好马不吃回头草 | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom); fig. once yo… | |
| 出草 | (of Taiwan aborigines) to go on a headhunting expedition | |
| 草食动物 | herbivore | |
| 食草动物 | herbivore | |
| 大草原 | prairie; savanna |