Meaning of 稻草
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
dàocǎo
- rice straw
稻草 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
放轻松，这只是个稻草人而已。
Relax, it's just a scarecrow.
Stroke order for each character
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稻 dào · rice plant · 15 strokes
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草 cǎo · grass · 9 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 稻草.
| 草地 | cǎodì | lawn; meadow |
| 草原 | cǎoyuán | grassland; prairie |
| 草坪 | cǎopíng | lawn |
| 起草 | qǐcǎo | to make a draft; to draw up (plans) |
| 草案 | cǎo'àn | draft (legislation, proposal etc) |
| 斩草除根 | zhǎncǎo-chúgēn | to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom); to destroy root and branch; to eliminate com |
| 水稻 | shuǐdào | rice; paddy |
| 潦草 | liáocǎo | slipshod; careless; slovenly; (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible |
| 奇花异草 | qíhuā-yìcǎo | (idiom) rare or exotic flowers and plants |
| 草莓 | cǎoméi | strawberry; (Tw) hickey |
| 香草 | xiāngcǎo | aromatic herb; vanilla |
| 烟草 | yāncǎo | tobacco |
Questions about 稻草
What does 稻草 mean?
稻草 (dàocǎo) means "rice straw" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 稻草?
稻草 is made of 2 characters: 稻 (15 strokes), 草 (9 strokes). That is 24 strokes in total.
Is 稻草 an HSK word?
Yes. 稻草 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.