Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "草" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "草" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
cǎo
Definition
grass / straw / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / manuscript / hasty
lit. grass stirring in the wind (idiom) / fig. the slightest whiff of trouble
grassland / prairie / CL:片[pian4]
haystack / stack / hayrick
haystack / mow / rick / haycock / strawstack
browse / browze / tender grass / young grass
lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom) / fig. barren
paramecium / paramecia / paramoecium
to store up provisions against a war
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
first draft / to draw up (a first version)
to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely
withered grass / dry grass
draft (legislation, proposal etc)
thatched shack / straw shed
grass mud horse / used as a substitute for 肏你媽|肏你妈[cao4 ni3 ma1], to mock or avoid censorship on the Internet
careless / slovenly / illegible (of handwriting)