草纸 (草紙)
cǎo zhǐ
Pinyin

Definition

草纸 (草紙)
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cǎo zhǐ
  1. rough straw paper
  2. toilet paper
  3. brown paper

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

据说金字塔里还发现了一种草纸，上面有古埃及文字。哎，我一直以为纸是我们东汉的蔡伦发明的，没想到古埃及早就发明了纸。比我们早了近3000年！
jùshuō jīnzìtǎ lǐ hái fāxiàn le yīzhǒng cǎozhǐ ，shàngmian yǒu gǔ Āijí wénzì 。ai ，wǒ yīzhí yǐwéi zhǐ shì wǒmen dōnghàn de Cài lún fāmíng de ，méixiǎngdào gǔ Āijí zǎo jiù fāmíng le zhǐ 。bǐ wǒmen zǎo le jìn sānqiān nián ！
They say a kind of grass paper was discovered in the pyramids. It has Egyptian writing on it. Ah, I always thought paper was discovered by Cai Lun during China's Eastern Han dynasty. I had no idea that ancient Egypt had discovered paper so early. They had it 3000 years before us!
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