草
cǎo HSK2

grass

草 cǎo
grass noun
grass, straw, or herbaceous plants

牛在草地上吃草。

niú zài cǎo​dì shàng chī cǎo.

The cows are grazing on the grass.

careless adjective
rough, hasty, or sloppy in execution

他的字写得太草了。

tā de zì xiě de tài cǎo le.

His handwriting is too sloppy.

draft verb
a manuscript or preliminary version of a document

这份合同他已经草好了，请你审阅。

zhè fèn hé​tong tā yǐ​jīng cǎo hǎo le, qǐng nǐ shěn​yuè.

He has already drafted the contract; please review it.

Cross-References

Classifier

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
789th most common 230.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,117th most common 81.4 per million appears in 32% of films
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
9
Unicode
U+8349

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)