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.

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

hay

clover / trefoil

Chinese herbal medicine

milkweeds (genus Asclepias)

,

Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence

medicinal herb (genus Mesona) / grass jelly

A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.

sedge herb (Cyperus rotundus)

(bird species of China) meadow bunting (Emberiza cioides)

Central Asian grasslands

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.