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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 药草

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
药草 yào cǎo - medicinal herb

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
- - 24,589 56,113 64,248

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yào- leaf of the iris
- variant of 藥|药[yao4]
yào- medicine
- drug
- substance used for a specific purpose (e.g. poisoning, explosion, fermenting)
- CL:種|种[zhong3],服[fu4],味[wei4]
- to poison
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 药草

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
药草 - - 24,589 56,113 64,248