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草卉，花草 flowers and underbush;
草叢 underbush;
打草驚蛇 frighten away thieves by raising a scare;
斬草除根 uproot s.t., destroy root and all;
拔草 to weed (a ground);
野草閒花 girls or women to be picked up;
grassland: 草野，草莽 [cao3ye3], [cao3mang3]↓;
草頭露 like dew on the grass－evanescent.
(2) Straw: 草帽，草鞋，草蓆 [cao3mao4], [cao3xie2], [cao3xi2]↓.
(3) Rapid, cursive style of writing: 草書 [cao3shu1]↓;
大草 highly cursive writing;
行草 semi-cursive style usual in letters or any informal writing;
章草 60.10.
(4) A draft: 起草 make a draft (of statement or any writing).
hence also to pioneer s.t.: 草創，草制 [cao3chuang4], [cao3zhi4]1↓.
(2) Slipshod, crude, careless: 潦草，粗草 rough, careless (writing, work).
(3) Female of species: 草驢 female donkey;
草雞 [cao3ji1]↓;
草馬 mare.
2.草包 [cao3bao1], n., (abuse) dullard, imbecile, one who is liable to spoil things.
3.草本 [cao2ben3], n., (1) draft copy; [cao3ben3], (2) (bot.) a grass, herb.
4.草標兒 [cao3biao1er0], n., a wisp of straw marking s.t. for sale: 插草標兒 mark s.t. to be sold in market.
5.草鄙 [cao2bi3], adj., rustic, uneducated (person).
6.草蜻蛉 [cao3qing1ling2], n., a grass insect, Chrysopa perla.
7.草創 [cao3chuang4], v.i. & t., (1) to pioneer, start (s.t.); (2) (AC) to draft (document).
8.草底兒 [cao2dieeer0], n., handwritten draft, original.
9.草地 [cao3di4], n., lawn, grassy plot.
10.草稿 [cao2gao3], n., preliminary draft (of essay, etc.).
11.草雞 [cao3ji1], n., a hen; (fig.) a chicken-hearted person.
12.草菅 [cao2jian1], v.t., as in 草菅人命 to have complete disregard for human life－slaughter people.
13.草芥 [cao3jie4], n., insignificant trifle.
14.草螽 [cao3zhong1], n., an insect, Conocephalus thumbergi.
15.草蜘蛛 [cao3zhi1zhu1]2, n., a small spider, Agalena limbata.
16.草制 [cao3zhi4]1, v.t., see [cao3chuang4] (2) ↑.
17.草蛭 [cao3zhi4]2, n., a kind of leech, Haemadipsa japonica.
18.草紙 [cao2zhi3], n., toilet paper.
19.草寇 [cao3kou4], n., (AC) robbers, brigand.
20.草萊 [cao3lai2], n., wasteland, primitive land or jungle.
21.草蘭 [cao3lan2], n., a species of orchid, Cymbidium.
22.草料 [cao3liao4], n., hay, fodder.
23.草蘆 [cao3lu2], n., a grass hut, matshed.
24.草綠 [cao3lU4], n., color of grass.
25.草履蟲 [cao3lU3chong2], n., (zoo.) a primitive worm, Paramaecium caudatum.
26.草莽 [cao2mang3], n., see [cao3lai2]↑.
27.草帽（兒） [cao3mao4]([er0]), n., straw hat.
28.草茅 [cao3mao2], n., lowly or rustic condition of life.
29.草昧 [cao3mei4], n., primeval times.
30.草棉 [cao3mian2], n., (bot.) common cotton.
31.草木 [cao3mu4], n., vegetation in gen.; 草木灰 ashes from grass stalks, used as fertilizer.
32.草坪 [cao3ping2], n., a lawn, a stretch of grassland.
33.草上飛 [cao3shang4fei1], n., formerly, a fast rowboat on the Grand Canal.
34.草上霜 [cao3shang4shuang1], n., a rare lamb skin, so called from the pearl-like white curls at the top.
35.草寫 [cao3xie3], v.t., to write hastily or in hasty style.
36.草鞋 [cao3xie2], n., straw sandal; 草鞋錢 tip demanded of people by official couriers, or petty officers.
37.草蓆 [cao3xi2], n., straw mat.
38.草書 [cao3shu1], n., cursive, rapid style of writing, marked by tendency to join strokes and economy of lines.
39.草率 [cao3shuai4], adv., careless, slipshod, slovenly (in work).
40.草市 [cao3shi4], n., village market.
41.草石蠶 [cao3shi2can2], n., (bot.) Stachys sieboldi.
42.草酸 [cao3suan1], n., (chem.) oxalic acid.
43.草堂 [cao3tang2], n., (real or alleged) “grass abode”－scholar's residence.
44.草草 [cao2cao3], adv., (finish s.t.) roughly, without due care.
45.草刺兒 [cao3ce4er0], n., see [cao3jie4]↑.
46.草蹙 [cao3cu4], adv., see [cao2cao3]↑.
47.草次 [cao3ci4], adv., (AC) carelessly (＝造次); (2) on the grass, in open air.
48.草賊 [cao3zei2], n., [cao3kou4]↑.
49.草澤 [cao3ze2], n., life in the open: 起於草澤 rustic origins.
50.草字 [cao3zi4], n., see [cao3shu1]↑.
51.草字頭兒 [cao3zi4tou2er0], n., the “grass” radical “
”; index No.20A. 52.草藥 [cao3yao4], n., herb medicine.
53.草野 [cao3ye3], n., country life of common people; the people at large (opp. 朝廷 the court).
54.草原 [cao3yUan2], n., steppe, prairie.