grass; straw; herbs; plants with non-woody stems

(bound form) a draft of a document; a preliminary sketch or manuscript

careless; hasty; rough; sloppy

cursive or shorthand style of writing characters, as in 狂草 kuáng​cǎo or 行草 xíng​cǎo

(vulgar) to fuck; to screw

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

the grass radical in Chinese characters, usually written at the top of a character