name of a plant

Components

Meaning component
cao, cǎo grass

plant

Sound component
extend

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkrɯb

說文解字

堇艸也。从艸及聲。讀若急。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica