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Mythic Mandarin

仙草 (xiān cǎo): meaning and stroke order

仙草 (xiān cǎo) means medicinal herb (genus Mesona), grass jelly.

仙草

Simplified
仙草
Traditional
仙草 (same form)
Pinyin
xiān cǎo

Stroke order of 仙草

仙

  • xiān immortal
  • xiān variant of 仙[xian1]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 僊

Stroke by stroke

草

  • cǎo variant of 草[cao3]
  • cǎo grass; straw
  • cào variant of 肏[cao4]
  • 9 strokes
  • Traditional form: 艸

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 仙草

  1. xiān cǎo
    • medicinal herb (genus Mesona)
    • grass jelly

Radicals of the characters

仙
Radical 人 (Kangxi radical 9) · 5 strokes · 亻 on the left, 山 on the right
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.

仙草 in our stories

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  • 白素贞醒来，看到丈夫已经没有了呼吸，心痛欲绝。她不顾怀孕的身体，飞到昆仑山去偷能起死回生的仙草。

    Bái Sùzhēn xǐng lái kàndào zhàngfu yǐjīng méiyǒu le hūxī xīntòngyùjué tā búgù huáiyùn de shēntǐ fēi dào Kūnlún Shān qù tōu néng qǐsǐhuíshēng de xiāncǎo

    When Bai Suzhen came to and saw her husband no longer breathing, she was heartbroken. Heedless of her pregnancy, she flew to the Kunlun Mountains to steal a magic herb that could bring the dead back to life.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 仙草

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).