Character: 草
Modern (Beijing) reading: cǎo
Preclassic Old Chinese: shūʔ
Classic Old Chinese: shū́
Western Han Chinese: shǝ̄́w
Eastern Han Chinese: shǝ̄́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: shǝ̄́w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shā́w
Late Postclassic Chinese: shā́w
Middle Chinese: chấw
English meaning : grass, small plants
Russian meaning[s]: 1) трава; сено; солома; соломенный; перен. деревенский; захолустный; 2) пустяковый, незначащий; дешевый; перен. мой; не ценить, считать нестоящим; 3) грубый, черновой; небрежно; кое-как; вчерне; черновик, набросок; проект; набросать (составить) проект; 4) скоропись; 5) самка
Shuowen gloss: 草逗,櫟實也.一曰象斗.從**.早聲. [47]
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *shūʔ 'be rough, coarse; grossly'. The original character consisted of just one radical (see Shuowen 22); the character 草, according to the Shuowen, had meant 'acorn'.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data Number: 1055
Character: 草
MC description : 效開一上皓清
ZIHUI: 5430 1344
Beijing: chau 2
Jinan: chɔ 2
Xi'an: cau 2
Taiyuan: chau 2
Hankou: chau 2
Chengdu: chau 2
Yangzhou: chɔ 2
Suzhou: chä 2
Wenzhou: chз 21
Changsha: chau 2
Shuangfeng: chǝ 2
Nanchang: chau 2
Meixian: chau 2
Guangzhou: čhou 21
Xiamen: cho 2 (lit.); chau 2
Chaozhou: chau 21
Fuzhou: chau 2; chɔ 2 (lit.)
Shanghai: chɔ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: chau 2
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 2273
Karlgren code: 1049 b-c
Vietnamese reading: tha`o
Jianchuan Bai: chu1
Dali Bai: chu1
Bijiang Bai: ćhü1
Shijing occurrences: 14.1