Watch the video of writing the Chinese character "草", learn the correct stroke order (笔顺) of the character "草", and master the standard way of writing the character "草".
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)