艸
cǎocào HSK2

grass

草 cǎo frequency
variant 艸
grass noun
grass; straw; herbs; plants with non-woody stems

牛以草为主食。

niú yǐ cǎo wéi​zhǔ shí.

Cattle feed mostly on grass.

有些季节，有些地方，花比草还多。

yǒu​xiē jì​jié, yǒu​xiē dì​fang, huā bǐ cǎo hái duō.

In some seasons, in certain places, there are more flowers than grass.

draft nounverb
(bound form) a draft of a document; a preliminary sketch or manuscript
careless adjective
careless; hasty; rough; sloppy
cursive script adverbnoun
cursive or shorthand style of writing characters, as in 狂草 kuáng​cǎo or 行草 xíng​cǎo
草 cào
variant 艸
to fuck
(vulgar) to fuck; to screw
艸 cǎo
grass
archaic form of 草 cǎo; general term for herbaceous plants; used modernly as a radical and as a variant of 草 cǎo in various senses
radical 140
the grass radical in Chinese characters, usually written at the top of a character

Frequency
Character
Written text
9,836th most common 0.005 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
22.1 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
67.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+8278

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)