草书
cǎo shū
Pinyin

Definition

草书
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cǎo shū
  1. grass script
  2. cursive script (Chinese calligraphic style)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

皮草
pí cǎo
  1. 1 fur clothing
草
cǎo
  1. 1 variant of 草[cǎo]
草根
cǎo gēn
  1. 1 grass roots (lit. and fig.)
草莓
cǎo méi
  1. 1 strawberry
  2. 2 CL:顆|颗[kē]
  3. 3 (Tw) hickey
  4. 4 love bite
三叶草
sān yè cǎo
  1. 1 clover
  2. 2 trefoil
仙草
xiān cǎo
  1. 1 medicinal herb (genus Mesona)
  2. 2 grass jelly
含羞草
hán xiū cǎo
  1. 1 mimosa
  2. 2 sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched)
拈花惹草
niān huā rě cǎo
  1. 1 lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to womanize
  3. 3 to frequent brothels
  4. 4 to sow one's wild oats
本草
běn cǎo
  1. 1 a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine
  2. 2 Chinese materia medica
校草
xiào cǎo
  1. 1 the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiào huā])
水草
shuǐ cǎo
  1. 1 water plants
  2. 2 habitat with water source and grass
沾花惹草
zhān huā rě cǎo
  1. 1 to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
  2. 2 to womanize
  3. 3 to frequent brothels
  4. 4 to sow one's wild oats
烟草
yān cǎo
  1. 1 tobacco
甘草
gān cǎo
  1. 1 licorice root
种草
zhòng cǎo
  1. 1 (Internet slang) to recommend a product to sb
稻草
dào cǎo
  1. 1 rice straw
稻草人
dào cǎo rén
  1. 1 scarecrow
粮草
liáng cǎo
  1. 1 army provisions
  2. 2 rations and fodder
绿草
lu:4 cǎo
  1. 1 green grass
花草
huā cǎo
  1. 1 flowers and plants

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 r5 pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r5 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
天涯何处无芳草
tiān yá hé chù wú fāng cǎo
  1. 1 there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
奇花异草
qí huā yì cǎo
  1. 1 very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
好马不吃回头草
hǎo mǎ bù chī huí tóu cǎo
  1. 1 lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc)
  3. 3 leave the past behind
寸草不生
cùn cǎo bù shēng
  1. 1 lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. barren
打草惊蛇
dǎ cǎo jīng shé
  1. 1 lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy
  3. 3 to punish sb as a warning to others
拈花惹草
niān huā rě cǎo
  1. 1 lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to womanize
  3. 3 to frequent brothels
  4. 4 to sow one's wild oats
招风惹草
zhāo fēng rě cǎo
  1. 1 to stir up trouble (idiom)
  2. 2 to sow discord
斩草除根
zhǎn cǎo chú gēn
  1. 1 to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch
  2. 2 to eliminate completely
沾花惹草
zhān huā rě cǎo
  1. 1 to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
  2. 2 to womanize
  3. 3 to frequent brothels
  4. 4 to sow one's wild oats
疾风劲草
jí fēng jìng cǎo
  1. 1 the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
  2. 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
疾风知劲草
jí fēng zhī jìng cǎo
  1. 1 the storm put strong grass to the test (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
  2. 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
  3. 3 also written 疾風勁草|疾风劲草
疾风知劲草，烈火见真金
jí fēng zhī jìn cǎo , liè huǒ jiàn zhēn jīn
  1. 1 the storm put strong grass to the test, fire tests true gold (idiom); fig. troubled times test a faithful minister
  2. 2 to show one's true colors after a stern test
碧草如茵
bì cǎo rú yīn
  1. 1 green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on
结草衔环
jié cǎo xián huán
  1. 1 to repay sb's kind acts (idiom)
绿草如茵
lu:4 cǎo rú yīn
  1. 1 green grass like cushion (idiom); green meadow so inviting to sleep on

Sample Sentences

拜托啊大哥！这是草书，是艺术！看人家写得龙飞凤舞的，多漂亮！
bàituō a dàgē ！zhè shì cǎoshū ，shì yìshù ！kàn rénjiā xiě de lóngfēifèngwǔ de ，duō piàoliang ！
Come on, man! This is calligraphy. It's artwork! The artist wrote it so freely and expressively. It's really beautiful!
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没错。其实很多简体字早就在民间流行了，从来的“从”和众人的“众”就是笔画简单的古字；专家的“专”和东方的“东”是从草书来的；还有就是把同音字合并为简单的那个字。比如 “皇后”的“后”和“以后”的“后”合并。
méicuò 。qíshí hěn duō jiǎntǐzì zǎo jiù zài mínjiān liúxíng le ，cónglái de “cóng ”hé zhòngrén de “zhòng ”jiùshì bǐhuà jiǎndān de gǔzì ；zhuānjiā de “zhuān ”hé Dōngfāng de “dōng ”shì cóng cǎoshū lái de ；hái yǒu jiùshì bǎ tóngyīnzì hébìng wèi jiǎndān de nà ge zì 。bǐrú “huánghòu ”de “hòu ”hé “yǐhòu ”de “hòu ”hébìng 。
That's right. Actually many simplified characters have been popular among common people for a long time. The words for ''from" and ''crowd" are ancient characters with simplified strokes. The words for ''one" and ''east" came from grass script. There were also some words that merged homophones to make a simpler word. For instance, the words for ''after" and ''behind".
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你说的是平假名和片假名吧，那是日语的注音符号。在日语中，同一个发音对应着平假名和片假名两种写法。平假名是从汉字的草书演化过来的，用于一般的书写。片假名源于汉字的偏旁部首，主要是用来表示外来语或强调的。
nǐ shuō de shì píngjiǎmíng hé piànjiǎmíng ba ，nà shì rìyǔ de zhùyīn fúhào 。zài rìyǔ zhōng ，tóng yī ge fāyīn duìyìng zhe píngjiǎmíng hé piànjiǎmíng liǎng zhǒng xiěfǎ 。píngjiǎmíng shì cóng hànzì de cǎoshū yǎnhuà guòlai de ，yòngyú yībān de shūxiě 。piànjiǎmíng yuányú hànzì de piānpáng bùshǒu ，zhǔyào shì yònglái biǎoshì wàiláiyǔ huò qiángdiào de 。
You're talking about hiragana and katakana. They're the phonetic writing system of Japanese. In Japanese, the same sounds correspond to both the written forms of hiragana and of katakana. Hiragana evolved from the grass script form of Chinese characters, and are used in typical writing. Katakana originated from the radicals of Chinese characters, and is mainly used to express foreign loanwords or emphasis.
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