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Pronunciation: căo
Meaning: grass/straw
Etymology:
Grass 艹 + 早 (phonetic). (phono-semantic compound).

Traditional character: 草 (roughly the same, difference in stroke count)

Found in:
Du Fu's 春望
Zhao ShiXiu's 约客

Word of the day on 04.12.08

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