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

to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch / to eliminate completely

to stir up trouble (idiom) / to sow discord

Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

(fig.) to clutch at straws (in desperation) / to take advantage of the situation (unscrupulously)

(one's) last straw to clutch at / one's last hope

Tang dynasty compendium of herbal medicine

divot (golf)

a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica

(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself

raffia (loanword)

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.