百草

Chinese

		hundred	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (百草)		百	草
simp. #(百草)		百	草

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎicǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄞˇ ㄘㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baak³ cou²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǎicǎo [Phonetic: báicǎo]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄞˇ ㄘㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǎicǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pai³-tsʻao³
    • Yale: bǎi-tsǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baetsao
    • Palladius: байцао (bajcao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baak³ cou²
    • Yale: baak chóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baak⁸ tsou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bag³ cou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paːk̚³ t͡sʰou̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: paek tshawX

Rime
Character	百	草
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	清 (14)
Final (韻)	庚 (113)	豪 (89)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	I
Fanqie	博陌切	采老切
Baxter	paek	tshawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠæk̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚak̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pak̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨjk̚/	/t͡sʰawX/
Li Rong	/pɐk̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Wang Li	/pɐk̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pɐk̚/	/t͡sʰɑuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bo	cǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bak1	cou2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pˤrak  [tsʰ]ˤuʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praːɡ  sʰuːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	百	草
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǎi	cǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ pæk ›	‹ tshawX ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁrak/	/*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/
English	hundred	grass, plants
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	百	草
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	194	16547
Phonetic component	白	早
Rime group	鐸	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	伯	草
Old Chinese	/*praːɡ/	/*sʰuːʔ/
Notes		說文作艸

Noun

百草

1. all kinds of grass; all kinds of flora

   • 商風肅而害生兮，百草育而不長。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     商风肃而害生兮，百草育而不长。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Shāngfēng sù ér hài shēng xī, bǎicǎo yù ér bù cháng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• 百草枯 (bǎicǎokū)
• 百草霜
• 鬥百草／斗百草

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (百草):

• → Korean: 백초(百草) (baekcho)
• → Vietnamese: bách thảo (百草)