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

lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom) / fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy / to punish sb as a warning to others

Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang

Bayanbulak grasslands in Uldus basin of Tianshan mountains

evening primrose

daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)

see 拈花惹草[nian1 hua1 re3 cao3]

see 沾花惹草[zhan1 hua1 re3 cao3]

to mow grass / haymaking / to write a rough draft (of an essay etc)

lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats

Jiancaoping district of Taiyuan city 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 shi4], Shanxi

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.