懂中文 Dong Chinese

草

cǎo, cào

grass

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 早 represents the sound.

Components
艹 sound,meaning component

艹  Sound Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

早 sound component

早  Sound component

zǎo

  

early

Evolution

草 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
草 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
草 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

草  

cǎo

grass, straw, thatch, herbs; grass; straw; manuscript; draft (of a document); careless; rough; CL:棵[kē],撮[zuǒ],株[zhū],根[gēn]

草  

cào

variant of 肏[cào]

草 (艸) 

cǎo

variant of 草[cǎo]

Most common words with 草
Freq.
Word
Meaning

草

grass

草案

draft (legislation, proposal etc)

草莓

strawberry

草坪

lawn

烟草

tobacco