起草 Chinese English dictionary 起草 translate 起草 pinyin

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起草

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Simplified Pīnyīn		English Definition	Traditional HSK
起草 qǐcǎo	起草 \| 起草* \| *起草	to make a draft / to draw up (plans)	HSK 7-9

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Character		Tot Str Rad / Str	Mandarin Pīnyīn	Unihan Definition standalone and in compounds	Jyutping Cantonese	Variant Four corner Cangjie
起	起 \| 起* \| *起	10画走 + 3	qǐ	rise, stand up; go up; begin	hei2	4780.1 GORU


草	草 \| 草* \| *草	9画艸艹 + 6	cǎo, zào	grass, straw, thatch, herbs	cou2	4440.6 TAJ

Word decomposition:

Simplified		English Definition
起草 qǐcǎo	起草 \| 起草* \| *起草	to make a draft / to draw up (plans)


起 qǐ	起 \| 起* \| *起	to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group


草　cǎo	草 \| 草* \| *草	variant of 草


草　cǎo	草 \| 草* \| *草	grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: 棵, 撮, 株, 根


草　cào	草 \| 草* \| *草	variant of 肏