Chinese

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grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
 
(grass); Themeda forsbali
trad. (草菅)
simp. #(草菅)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (14) (28)
Final () (89) (69)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I II
Fanqie
Baxter tshawX kaen
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kˠan/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kᵚan/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sʰawX/ /kaɨn/
Li
Rong
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kan/
Wang
Li
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kan/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡sʰɑuX/ /kan/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
cǎo jiān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cou2 gaan1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
cǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ tshawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*[tsʰ]ˁuʔ/
English 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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 16547 4457
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sʰuːʔ/ /*kroːn/
Notes

Noun

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草菅

  1. (literary, figurative) something small and insignificant; trifle
  2. (literary, figuratively) the common people; the masses; ordinary citizens

Synonyms

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  • (trifle): 草芥 (cǎojiè)
  • (the common people):

Derived terms

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