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HSK 3

草

cǎo

Meaning

  1. grass
  2. straw
  3. manuscript
  4. draft (of a document)
  5. careless
  6. rough
Pinyin
cǎo
Classifier
棵(kē), 撮(zuǒ), 株(zhū), 根(gēn)

Character reference

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Writing practice

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