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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: , , ,
HSK 2
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
HSK 2
grassland / prairie / CL:
HSK 5
to make a draft / to draw up (plans)
HSK 7-9
draft (legislation, proposal etc)
HSK 7-9
slipshod; careless; slovenly / (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
HSK 7-9
lawn
HSK 7-9
rice straw
HSK 7-9
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
HSK 7-9
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
HSK 7-9
Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves)
reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)
Miscanthus (genus of grass)
tobacco
edelweiss (Leontopodium alpinum)
Schoenoplectus triqueter
green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on
grasshopper
(bird species of China) meadow bunting (Emberiza cioides)
straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) / paddy straw mushroom
Mackie's pest; lovegrass (Chrysopogon aciculatus)
straw sandals
(bird species of China) Chinese babax (Pterorhinus lanceolatus)
Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia)
lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds and true gold stands the test of fire (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
licorice root
fur clothing
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
flowers and plants
all kinds of grass / all kinds of flora
Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia)
grass
pastureland
snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
fodder
a sketch / rough drawing
to weed
straw hat
hay
see 白茅
first draft / to draw up (a first version)
strawberry / CL: 顆|颗 / (Tw) hickey / love bite
coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
grass script; cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
army provisions / rations and fodder
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
draft / outline / sketch
pasture / forage grass / pasturage
careless / negligent / sloppy / not serious
the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花)
herbaceous / original draft (of a manuscript etc)
aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw
semicursive script
black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry
turf / sward / sod
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
straw weaving
the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw
aromatic herb / vanilla / alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei / (fig.) loyal and dependable person (old)
medicinal herb (genus Mesona) / grass jelly
motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca)
vegetation / plants
lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren
Hemerocallis fulva / daylily
a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica
to mow grass / haymaking / to write a rough draft (of an essay etc)
carelessly / hastily
lit. every tree or bush an enemy soldier (idiom); fig. to panic and treat everyone as an enemy / to feel beleaguered
the grass roots / the hoi polloi
grass roots (lit. and fig.)
weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland
meadow
lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom) / fig. the slightest whiff of trouble
oxalic acid C2H2O4
grass carp
mow grass
sb who goes whichever way the wind blows / sb with no mind of their own / easily swayed person / opportunist
forage grass
tough upright grass / (fig.) a staunch character who is loyal despite danger and hardship
underbrush
lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) / fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy / to punish sb as a warning to others
Caohai Lake, Guizhou
a rank growth of grass / uncultivated land / wilderness
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
creeper / climbing plant / twiner
Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine
weeds / mistress or prostitute (old)
lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch / to eradicate
to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth)
straw
grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈, to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet
Asakusa (district of Tokyo known for its traditional atmosphere and Sensō-ji, a 7th-century Buddhist temple)
to hoe / to weed
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty

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