| | grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL: 棵, 撮, 株, 根 | HSK 2 |
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| | rice straw | HSK 7-9 |
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| | very rarely seen, unusual (idiom) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | slipshod; careless; slovenly / (of handwriting) scrawly; illegible | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to make a draft / to draw up (plans) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine / Chinese materia medica | |
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| | all kinds of grass / all kinds of flora | |
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| | medicinal herb | |
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| | plantain herb (Plantago asiatica) | |
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| | flowers and plants | |
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| | medicinal herb (genus Mesona) / grass jelly | |
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| | grass | |
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| | clover / trefoil | |
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| | caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) (The fungus grows within the body of a caterpillar, culminating in the emergence of a stalked fruiting body from the caterpillar's head, and is a much-prized and expensive ingredient used as a tonic in traditional Chinese medicine.) | |
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| | snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) | |
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| | to weed | |
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| | weeds | |
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| | carelessly / hastily | |
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| | licorice root | |
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| | aromatic herb / vanilla / alternative name for Eupatorium fortunei / (fig.) loyal and dependable person (old) | |
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| | lavender (genus Lavandula) | |
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| | tobacco | |
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| | seagrass | |
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| | army provisions / rations and fodder | |
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| | (botany) Japanese hop (Humulus japonicus) | |
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| | (one's) last straw to clutch at; one's last hope | |
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| | Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) | |
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| | chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata) | |
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| | daylily (Hemerocallis fulva) | |
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| | to hoe / to weed | |
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| | vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides) | |
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| | Asakusa, district of Tokyo with an atmosphere of old Japan, famous for the 7th century Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji | |
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| | fur clothing | |
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| | lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood | |
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| | lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind | |
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| | tropical pitcher plant (i.e. genus Nepenthes) | |
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| | there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom) | |
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| | rush (botany) / Juncaceae | |
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| | deep gratitude up to death | |
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| | the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps | |
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| | papyrus | |
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| | honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica | |
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| | valerian (Valeriana officinalis) | |
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| | mimosa / sensitive plant (that closes its leaves when touched) | |
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| | straw | |
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| | aquatic plants / water and grass (i.e. favorable foraging land for livestock or wild animals) / (Malaysia) (coll.) drinking straw | |
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| | forage grass | |
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| | creeping oxalis / edelweiss | |
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| | grass that has grown on a grave since last year / (fig.) grave / to have died long ago / fodder provided to animals for the night | |
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| | lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis | |
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| | coco-grass; nut sedge (Cyperus rotundus) | |
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| | lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats | |
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| | weeds or grass used to feed pigs | |
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| | Carex meyeriana | |
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| | Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia) | |
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| | hay | |
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| | Indian madder; munjeet (Rubia cordifolia) | |
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| | weeds / mistress or prostitute (old) | |
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| | lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom) | |
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| | lit. sturdy grass withstands high winds (idiom) / fig. strength of character is revealed in a crisis | |
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| | sedge | |
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| | sb who goes whichever way the wind blows / sb with no mind of their own / easily swayed person / opportunist | |
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| | pasture / forage grass / pasturage | |
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| | rice-paper plant (Tetrapanax papyriferus) | |
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| | mow grass | |
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| | weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland | |
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| | (botany) Persicaria orientalis | |
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| | Schoenoplectus triqueter | |
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| | to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats | |
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| | withered grass; dry grass | |
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| | lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman | |
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| | lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty | |
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| | wire grass (Eleusine indica) | |
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| | motherwort (Leonurus heterophyllus or L. cardiaca) | |
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| | to graze; to eat grass | |
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| | to take to the woods to become an outlaw / (dialect) to be born (Etymology: in former times, a bed of straw or grass was used as padding during childbirth) | |
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| | creeper / climbing plant / twiner | |
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| | Chinese alpine rush (botany) | |
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| | reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) | |
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| | red root gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon) / flowering plant whose roots provide purple dye / arnebia (plant genus in family Boraginaceae) | |
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| | firewood | |
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| | (idiom) to bring trouble on oneself | |
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| | (fig.) to clutch at straws (in desperation) / to take advantage of the situation (unscrupulously) | |
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| | tough upright grass / (fig.) a staunch character who is loyal despite danger and hardship | |
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| | (of Taiwan aborigines) to go on a headhunting expedition | |
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| | milkweeds (genus Asclepias) | |
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| | Lucao or Lutsao Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县, west Taiwan | |
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| | hornwort | |
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| | sage (Salvia officinalis) | |
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| | to mow grass / haymaking / to write a rough draft (of an essay etc) | |
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| | (neologism) (slang) to spark interest in a product or idea (esp. on social media) | |
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| | lemongrass | |
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| | the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花) | |
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| | Miscanthus (genus of grass) | |
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| | Hedyotis diffusa | |
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