本草纲目

Compendium of Medical Herbs 1596, compiled by Li Shizhen 李時珍|李时珍[Li3 Shi2 zhen1]

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

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

variant of 草[cao3]

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

variant of 肏[cao4]

head rope of a fishing net / guiding principle / key link / class (taxonomy) / outline / program

eye / (literary) to look; to regard / eye (of a net); mesh / mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]) / item; section / list; catalogue / (taxonomy) order / name; title