草

cǎo = c + ao3

variant of 草[cao3]

草 = 艹 + 早 : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.

cǎo = c + ao3

grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]

草 = 艹 + 早 : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.

cào = c + ao4

variant of 肏[cao4]

草 character breakdown

草
- 早
  - 十
    - 一
    - 丨
  - 日
    - 一
    - 囗
- 艹

zǎo = z + ao3

early / morning / Good morning! / long ago / prematurely

早 = 十 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: your very own annoying alarm clock going off in the morning.

The sun (日) is rising above Zorro's (z) alarm clock (早) in the aorta's living room (ao3), but Zorro just smashs it with a big cross (十).

cǎo = c + ao3

grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]

Artificial lawn. The King of Chu burns artificial lawn in the aorta.

Characters with 草 as component

草 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 草

mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)

r

,

r

lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom) / fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too

to graze / to eat grass

Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner Mongolia

four-leaf clover

the straw that broke the camel’s back (idiom) / the final straw

rapporteur

prairie / savanna

to graze; to eat grass

r

,

r

see 又要馬兒跑，又要馬兒不吃草|又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草[you4 yao4 ma3 r5 pao3 , you4 yao4 ma3 r5 bu4 chi1 cao3]

Sentences with 草

dào

chù

ji̅n

bì

hui̅

huáng

biàn

dì

qí

hua̅

yì

cǎo

In heaven, everything is resplendent and magnificent and is decorated by exotic flowers.