草木
cǎo mù
Pinyin

Definition

草木
 - 
cǎo mù
  1. vegetation
  2. plants

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

木
Mù
  1. 1 surname Mu
仙草
xiān cǎo
  1. 1 medicinal herb (genus Mesona)
  2. 2 grass jelly
有木有
yǒu mù yǒu
  1. 1 (slang) come on, you can't deny it!
  2. 2 don't you think so?!
  3. 3 (melodramatic form of 有沒有|有没有)
木偶
mù ǒu
  1. 1 puppet
木星
Mù xīng
  1. 1 Jupiter (planet)

Idioms (20)

一木难支
yī mù nán zhī
  1. 1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one is helpless alone
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
你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥
nǐ zǒu nǐ de Yáng guān Dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
  1. 1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
  3. 3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
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

Sample Sentences

但她总觉得心中有一种说不出的寂寞。与草木倾吐心事时，草木听不懂她的话，跟鸟兽诉说烦躁时，鸟兽不了解她的苦恼。
dàn tā zǒng juéde xīnzhōng yǒu yī zhǒng shuōbuchū de jìmò 。yǔ cǎomù qīngtǔ xīnshì shí ，cǎomù tīngbudǒng tā de huà ，gēn niǎoshòu sùshuō fánzào shí ，niǎoshòu bù liǎojiě tā de kǔnǎo 。
But she felt in her heart an inexplicable sense of loneliness. When she poured out her heart to the plants and trees, they couldn't understand her; when she related her sorrows to the birds and beasts, they couldn't understand her suffering.
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