草
cǎo
grass, straw, thatch, herbs
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 艸
- HSK
- 2
- Tone
- 3
Other readings: zào
Stroke order
Example sentences
不要走在草地上。
Bù yào zǒu zài cǎo dì shàng
Stay off the grass.
Shadow草地看来不错。
Cǎo dì kàn lai bù cuò
The grass looks nice.
Shadow我们坐在草地上吧。
Wǒ men zuò zài cǎo dì shàng ba
Let's sit on the grass.
Shadow马吃草。
Mǎ chī cǎo
Horses eat grass.
Shadow
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Words containing 草
- 草cǎo 3grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough
- 草地cǎo dì 3–4 lawn; meadow; sod; turf
- 草原cǎo yuán 3–2 grassland; prairie
- 起草qǐ cǎo 3–3 → 2–3to make a draft; to draw up (plans)
- 草案cǎo àn 3–4 draft (legislation, proposal etc)
- 草率cǎo shuài 3–4 careless; negligent; sloppy; not serious
- 草坪cǎo píng 3–2 lawn
- 稻草dào cǎo 4–3 rice straw
- 斩草除根zhǎn cǎo chú gēn 3–3–2–1 → 2–3–2–1to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate completely
- 潦草liáo cǎo 2–3 slipshod; careless; slovenly; (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
- 奇花异草qí huā yì cǎo 2–1–4–3very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
- 草cào 4variant of 肏