草 (cǎo): meaning and stroke order
草 (cǎo) means grass, straw, manuscript, draft (of a document), careless, rough, CL:棵,撮,株,根, variant of 草.
草
- Simplified
- 草
- Traditional
- 草, 艸
- Pinyin
- cǎo · cào
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Stroke order of 草
草
- cǎo variant of 草[cao3]
- cǎo grass; straw
- cào variant of 肏[cao4]
- 9 strokes
- Traditional form: 艸
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Meaning of 草
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cǎo
- grass
- straw
- manuscript
- draft (of a document)
- careless
- rough
- CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
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cǎo
Traditional 艸
- variant of 草[cao3]
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cào
- variant of 肏[cao4]
Radical and structure
- 草
- Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 10 strokes · 艹 on top, 早 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 草
- 草木 cǎo mù vegetation; plants
- 草图 cǎo tú a sketch; rough drawing
- 仙草 xiān cǎo medicinal herb (genus Mesona); grass jelly
- 草鞋 cǎo xié straw sandals
草 in our stories
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虽然样子很厉害，但是它非常善良，走路的时候连小草都舍不得踩。
suīrán yàngzi hěn lìhai dànshì tā fēicháng shànliáng zǒulù de shíhou lián xiǎo cǎo dōu shěbude cǎi
It may look fierce, but it is very kind: when it walks it cannot bear to tread on even a blade of grass.
From the story The qilin HSK 4
Stories using 草
- The qilin HSK 4
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).