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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
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]

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
3 2 3,001 1,938 926

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Grass

Other Words Containing

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
3 2 3,001 1,938 926
草莓 - - 5,521 7,335 2,720
草坪 - 7 5,807 11,912 15,484
烟草 - - 7,142 8,947 20,088
香草 - - 7,921 26,333 12,731
草地 - 2 8,211 9,880 12,055
草率 6 - 9,803 24,568 19,258
起草 6 8 9,938 9,169 28,110
草原 - 5 10,602 6,864 8,967
草图 - - 11,110 38,518 36,958
稻草 - 8 11,473 21,002 22,936
草药 - - 11,658 26,142 34,124
草稿 - - 15,388 30,478 17,956
稻草人 - - 15,924 46,986 30,227
割草机 - - 16,333 100,757 75,868
干草 - - 16,371 43,269 50,666
打草惊蛇 - - 17,078 45,072 61,347
杂草 - - 17,935 16,428 22,194
草丛 - - 18,628 20,634 24,864
甘草 - - 18,804 13,049 17,898
草包 - - 19,340 48,446 30,383
草皮 - - 20,716 28,090 41,683
草草 - - 20,791 16,241 8,749
草案 6 9 21,055 3,484 19,246
草拟 - - 21,768 32,622 49,827
野草 - - 22,059 30,420 31,823
三叶草 - - 22,944 30,100 11,453
斩草除根 - 9 24,118 66,586 57,034
药草 - - 24,589 56,113 64,248
草场 - - 24,622 21,241 43,267
风吹草动 - - 24,989 33,225 31,559
花草 - - 25,913 15,292 10,758
除草 - - 26,188 33,757 54,524
草根 - - 27,986 8,711 3,442
青草 - - 28,058 25,547 19,655
除草剂 - - 29,432 43,331 72,749
草木 - - 29,434 25,555 24,531
墙头草 - - 30,608 69,458 37,360
含羞草 - - 31,121 72,624 38,368
食草动物 - - 35,061 88,770 76,672
寸草不生 - - 36,844 64,440 54,914
草帽 - - 37,061 29,747 16,438
牧草 - - 37,841 26,204 45,596
草菅人命 - - 39,148 68,104 39,669
粮草 - - 39,884 24,972 49,097
剪草机 - - 40,298 - -
草本 - - 40,584 35,209 17,139
草纸 - - 42,855 61,935 36,722
草果 - - 42,879 76,617 42,329
草鞋 - - 43,098 38,422 49,481
潦草 - 9 44,311 52,614 37,561
水草 - - 47,332 28,583 28,119
锄草 - - 48,966 - -
草料 - - 49,339 49,198 71,041
草体 - - 49,537 - -
莎草 - - 49,545 - -
谷草 - - 50,681 78,102 -
中草药 - - 52,222 18,999 28,175
草屋 - - 52,962 69,693 56,378
草书 - - 54,424 49,210 38,552
草食 - - 54,675 72,337 67,316
草本植物 - - 55,015 54,399 50,335
草草收场 - - 59,261 - -
茅草 - - 65,862 32,550 43,402
灯心草 - - 66,405 - -
草编 - - 68,607 64,924 44,384
莽草 - - 72,261 - -
草鸡 - - 72,869 - -
草海 - - 79,049 - -
草酸 - - 81,202 36,605 36,266
海草 - - 88,928 67,246 36,794