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charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: , , ,
HSK 2
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *艸* | 艸* | *艸
variant of
HSK 2
grassland / prairie / CL:
HSK 5
rice straw
HSK 7-9
draft (legislation, proposal etc)
HSK 7-9
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
HSK 7-9
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to make a draft / to draw up (plans)
HSK 7-9
slipshod; careless; slovenly / (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
HSK 7-9
lawn
HSK 7-9
weeds / mistress or prostitute (old)
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
grass / herb
strawberry / CL: 顆|颗 / (Tw) hickey / love bite
licorice root
straw weaving
medicinal herb (genus Mesona) / grass jelly
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
army provisions / rations and fodder
all kinds of grass / all kinds of flora
(one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
medicinal herb
careless / negligent / sloppy / not serious
oxalic acid C2H2O4
mow grass
straw hat
Caotun Township in Nantou County 南投縣|南投县, central Taiwan
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
aromatic herb / vanilla / alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei / (fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)
plantain herb (Plantago asiatica)
lawn mower (machine)
herbaceous plant
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
flowers and plants
sedge
straw mattress
first draft / to draw up (a first version)
grass script; cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
fodder
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
turf / sward / sod
straw
grass
straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) / paddy straw mushroom
Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia)
clover / trefoil
caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) (The fungus grows within the body of a caterpillar, culminating in the emergence of a stalked fruiting body from the caterpillar's head, and is a much-prized and expensive ingredient used as a tonic in traditional Chinese medicine.)
grass carp
Chinese herbal medicine
snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀|纪昀, novel of the supernatural / The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny
weeds
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)
lavender
mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)
underbrush
sb who goes whichever way the wind blows / sb with no mind of their own / easily swayed person / opportunist
herbal medicine
scarecrow
vegetation / plants
tobacco
seagrass
lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) / fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy / to punish sb as a warning to others
lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom) / fig. the slightest whiff of trouble
prairie / savanna
Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍
(botany) Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus)
vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides)
valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
bag made of woven straw / bag filled with straw / (fig.) a good-for-nothing / clumsy oaf
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (idiom) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)
grass roots (lit. and fig.)
Jiancaoping district of Taiyuan city 太原市, Shanxi
to rush through the work / to get through a thing carelessly
Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji
green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
plant ash
deep gratitude up to death
lawn mower
herbivore / herbivorous animal
vanilla / vanilla extract / methyl vanillin C8H8O3
herbivore
lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind
to take to the woods to become an outlaw (idiom)
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
papyrus
carelessly / hastily
Shennong's Compendium of Materia Medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica
grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night
to work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted / half-baked
a sketch / rough drawing
lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
water plants / habitat with water source and grass

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