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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: , , ,
HSK 2
lawn / meadow / sod / turf / CL:
HSK 2
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
tobacco
medicinal herb
Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia)
herbal medicine
licorice root
fur clothing
flowers and plants
a sketch / rough drawing
clover / trefoil
all kinds of grass / all kinds of flora
Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia)
red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae)
grass
valerian (Valeriana officinalis)
pastureland
withered grass; dry grass
fodder
lavender (genus Lavandula)
to weed
straw hat
hay
see 白茅
first draft / to draw up (a first version)
strawberry / CL: 顆|颗 / (Tw) hickey / love bite
seagrass
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.)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
meadow
straw sandals
grass script; cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)
army provisions / rations and fodder
draft / outline / sketch
pasture / forage grass / pasturage
grasshopper
careless / negligent / sloppy / not serious
the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花)
herbaceous / original draft (of a manuscript etc)
semicursive script
aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw
black cardamom / (dialect) strawberry
weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland
turf / sward / sod
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
straw weaving
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.)
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
bag made of woven straw / bag filled with straw / (fig.) a good-for-nothing / clumsy oaf
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
coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)
Caohai Lake, Guizhou
a rank growth of grass / uncultivated land / wilderness
straw mushroom (Volvariella volvacea) / paddy straw mushroom
the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps
creeper / climbing plant / twiner
weeds / mistress or prostitute (old)
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
Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji
to hoe / to weed
free-range chicken / (dialect) hen / cowardly
grass
firewood
to have disregard for human life (idiom)
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
thatched hut
weeds or grass used to feed pigs
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
to be in the early stages of establishing
bandits

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