草 (cǎo)
grass; straw; careless
How 草 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 草
- Simplified
- 草 (unchanged)
草 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- cǎo
- grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document)
- cào
- variant of 肏[cao4]
Common words using 草
- 草根 cǎogēn
- grassroots
- 草莓 cǎoméi
- strawberry; CL:顆|颗[ke1]; (Taiwan) hickey
- 三葉草 sānyècǎo
- clover; trefoil
- 仙草 xiāncǎo
- medicinal herb (genus Mesona); grass jelly
- 拈花惹草 niānhuārěcǎo
- to play with flowers and grass (idiom); to philander; to frequent brothels; to sow one's wild oats
- 本草 běncǎo
- a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine; Chinese materia medica
- 校草 xiàocǎo
- the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花)
- 煙草 yāncǎo
- tobacco
- 甘草 gāncǎo
- licorice root
- 皮草 pícǎo
- fur clothing
- 稻草 dàocǎo
- rice straw
- 稻草人 dàocǎorén
- scarecrow
草 in a sentence
我買了一些草莓。
Wǒ mǎi le yìxiē cǎoméi.
“I bought some strawberries.”
How common is 草?
草 is the 787th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85% of all running text.
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