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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 莽草

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
莽草 mǎng cǎo - Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves)

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
- - 72,261 - -

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
mǎng- (bound form) dense growth of grass
- (literary) vast; boundless
- (bound form) boorish; reckless
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 莽草

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
莽草 - - 72,261 - -