草上飞

草上飛
cǎoshàngfēi
idiom

Meanings

  1. 1 to run like the wind
  2. 2 an extraordinarily fast runner
  3. 3 (historical) a type of fast river boat

Examples

Tā pǎo de xiàng cǎoshàngfēi, yì zhǎyǎn jiù méi yǐng le.
He ran like the wind — one blink and he was gone.
Xiǎo shíhou cūn lǐ yǒu ge wàihào jiào cǎoshàngfēi de shàonián.
When I was little there was a kid in the village nicknamed 'Grass-Skimmer' because of how fast he ran.

Tips

culture
Famous as a martial-arts stock trope — a hero so light on his feet he seems to glide across grass without pressing it down. Also used historically as a nickname for speedy boats on inland waterways.

Stroke Order

cǎo
shàng
fēi