草 cǎo▶ hierba, pasto

Stroke order

草 is written in 9 strokes.

• 草

Senses

1. grass
2. straw
3. manuscript
4. draft (of a document)
5. careless
6. rough

Example sentences

• 小狗在草上玩。Xiǎo gǒu zài cǎo shàng wán.The puppy is playing on the grass.
• 草是绿色的。Cǎo shì lǜsè de.The grass is green.

Related words

• 草案borrador
• 草率superficial; chapucero
• 起草Borrador; Calado

草 is pronounced cǎo and means “hierba, pasto”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 草 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.