稻草
dào cǎo
Pinyin

Definition

稻草
 - 
dào cǎo
  1. rice straw

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

皮草
pí cǎo
  1. 1 fur clothing
草
cǎo
  1. 1 variant: 草 cǎo
草根
cǎo gēn
  1. 1 grass roots (lit. and fig.)
草莓
cǎo méi
  1. 1 strawberry
  2. 2 classifier: 颗 kē
  3. 3 (Tw) hickey
  4. 4 love bite
三叶草
sān yè cǎo
  1. 1 clover
  2. 2 trefoil

Idioms (20)

人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兵马未动，粮草先行
bīng mǎ wèi dòng , liáng cǎo xiān xíng
  1. 1 before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
  2. 2 an army marches on its stomach
剪草除根
jiǎn cǎo chú gēn
  1. 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
  2. 2 to eradicate
又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too

Sample Sentences

哎，不对，不对。你怎么拔稻子啊？割稻子是用镰刀割的，像这样，一只手抓住稻草，另一只手抓住镰刀，在根部上来一点的地方，用力地割下去。你看，这样多快！
āi ，bù duì ，bù duì 。nǐ zěnme bá dàozi a ？gē dàozi shì yòng liándāo gē de ，xiàng zhèyàng ，yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù dàocǎo ，lìng yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù liándāo ，zài gēnbù shànglái yīdiǎn de dìfang ，yònglì de gē xiàqu 。nǐ kàn ，zhèyàng duō kuài ！
Hey, that's not right! Why are you pulling up the rice? When we harvest, we use a sickle – like this: with one hand grab the rice straw, and with the other hand hold the sickle. Grab it a little bit above the root and cut it with force. See, this way it goes really quickly!
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