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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: , , ,
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
HSK 2
to make a draft / to draw up (plans)
HSK 7-9
slipshod; careless; slovenly / (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible
HSK 7-9
rice straw
HSK 7-9
very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
HSK 7-9
Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves)
reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
tobacco
medicinal herb
Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia)
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
snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus)
lavender (genus Lavandula)
to weed
hay
see 白茅
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *草* | 草* | *草
variant of
army provisions / rations and fodder
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
pasture / forage grass / pasturage
the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花)
semicursive script
aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata)
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)
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
weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland
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
coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus)
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
grass
firewood
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
weeds or grass used to feed pigs
tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes)
rush (botany) / Juncaceae
weeds
(botany) Persicaria orientalis
Chinese alpine rush (botany)
Carex meyeriana
lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
legendary grass conferring invisibility / fig. to conceal oneself or one's plans
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself
(neologism) (slang) to spark interest in a product or idea (esp. on social media)
green grass
to graze; to eat grass
(one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope
sage (Salvia officinalis)
(substitute for 我肏) fuck / WTF / (soccer) to waste time by feigning injury
deep gratitude up to death
lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
Hedyotis diffusa
papyrus
milkweeds (genus Asclepias)
there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
(botany) rue (Ruta graveolens)
vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides)
four-leaf clover
Lucao or Lutsao Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan
(botany) Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus)
hornwort
grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night
Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis
hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
creeping oxalis / edelweiss
mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
raffia (loanword)
Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine
grassy
wire grass (Eleusine indica)
sedge
Schoenoplectus triqueter
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty

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