花草

花草

Chinese

		flower; blossom; to spend flower; blossom; to spend; fancy pattern	grass; straw; draft (of a document) grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
trad. (花草)		花	草
simp. #(花草)		花	草
anagram		草花

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huācǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄚ ㄘㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ cou²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fâ-chhó
• Min Nan (POJ): hoe-chháu / hoa-chháu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huācǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚ ㄘㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huacǎo
    • Wade–Giles: hua¹-tsʻao³
    • Yale: hwā-tsǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: huatsao
    • Palladius: хуацао (xuacao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xwä⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: faa¹ cou²
    • Yale: fā chóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faa¹ tsou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fa¹ cou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faː⁵⁵ t͡sʰou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fâ-chhó
    • Hakka Romanization System: fa´ co`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fa¹ co³
    • Sinological IPA: /fa²⁴ t͡sʰo³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoe-chháu
    • Tâi-lô: hue-tsháu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoezhao
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hue⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hue³³ t͡sʰau⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /hue⁴⁴⁻³³ t͡sʰau⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoa-chháu
    • Tâi-lô: hua-tsháu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hoazhao
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hua⁴⁴⁻²² t͡sʰau⁵³/

Noun

花草

1. (collective) flowers and grass; plants
2. (figurative, literary) woman; girl
3. (Taiwanese Hakka, figurative) acrobatics; juggling
4. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) a folk dance style in the Min Nan region

Synonyms

• (plants):

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株 (zhū) 植 (zhí) (literary, or in compounds) 植株 (zhízhū) 植物 (zhíwù) 植被 (zhíbèi)

花卉 (huāhuì) 草木 (cǎomù) 歲物／岁物 (suìwù) (literary) 綠色植物／绿色植物 (lǜsè zhíwù)

• (acrobatics): 把戲／把戏 (bǎxì)

Adjective

花草

1. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) unnecessary and overelaborate

Derived terms

花花草草

花草步

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
花	草
はな Grade: 1	くさ Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 花(はな) (hana, “flower”) + 草(くさ) (kusa, “grass”).

Noun

花(はな)草(くさ) • (hanakusa) 

1. Synonym of 母子草 (hahakogusa): Jersey cudweed (Pseudognaphalium affine, syn. Gnaphalium affine)
2. Synonym of 蓬, 艾 (yomogi): Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)
3. Synonym of 蓮華草 (rengesō): Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)

Proper noun

花(はな)草(くさ) • (Hanakusa) 

1. a surname