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): ㄏㄨㄚㄘㄠˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): faa¹ cou²
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fâ-chhó
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hoe-chháu / hoa-chháu
Wu (Wugniu)
- (Northern): ¹ho-tshau

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: huācǎo
  - Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄚㄘㄠˇ
  - 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

(collective) flowers and grass; plants
(figurative, literary) woman; girl
(Taiwanese Hakka, figurative) acrobatics; juggling
(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

(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)

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

Proper noun

花(はな)草(くさ) • (Hanakusa)

a surname

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