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
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-chháu / hoa-chháu
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ¹ho-tshau

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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): /xu̯ä⁵⁵ t͡sʰɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • 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/
• Southern Min
  • (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/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹ho-tshau
    • MiniDict: ho^平 tshau
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹ho-tshau
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ho⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔ²¹/

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 Southern Min region

Synonyms

• (plants):

• 株 (zhū)
• 植 (zhí) (literary, or in compounds)
• 植株 (zhízhū)
• 植物 (zhíwù)
• 植被 (zhíbèi)
• 歲物／岁物 (suìwù) (literary)
• 綠色植物／绿色植物 (lǜsè zhíwù)
• 花卉 (huāhuì)
• 草木 (cǎomù)

 

• (acrobatics): 把戲／把戏 (bǎxì)

Derived terms

• 白頭花草／白头花草

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (花草):

• → Korean: 화초(花草) (hwacho)

Adjective

花草

1. (Quanzhou and Xiamen Hokkien) unnecessary and overelaborate

Derived terms

• 花花草草
• 花草步

 

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) or 花草(ハナクサ) • (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 milkvetch (Astragalus sinicus)

Proper noun

花(はな)草(くさ) • (Hanakusa) 

1. a surname