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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 水草

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
水草 shuǐ cǎo - aquatic plants
- water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals)
- (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - 47,332 28,583 28,119

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
shuǐ- surname Shui
shuǐ- water
- (after a name) ... River
- to swim (used mostly in 會水|会水[hui4shui3] and 水性[shui3xing4])
- (coll.) lacking in substance; shoddy
- (bound form) additional cost; extra income
- classifier for washings of a garment
cǎo- grass
- straw
- manuscript
- draft (of a document)
- careless
- rough
- CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
cào- variant of 肏[cao4]
cǎo- variant of 草[cao3]

Other Words Containing 水草

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
水草 - - 47,332 28,583 28,119