野草

yěcǎo

noun #22,059

Meanings

1 weeds
2 wild grass

Characters

wild / countryside

grass / plant / weed

Examples

花园里长满了野草，需要除一除。

Huāyuán lǐ zhǎng mǎn le yěcǎo, xūyào chú yi chú.

The garden is overgrown with weeds and needs to be cleared.

野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。

Yěhuǒ shāo bù jìn, chūn fēng chuī yòu shēng.

Wildfire cannot burn them all out; spring wind blows and they grow again. (from Bai Juyi's poem about wild grass)

Tips

culture

野草 is the title of a famous collection of prose poems (1927) by Lu Xun (鲁迅), one of China's greatest modern writers. The image of wild grass — resilient and untameable — is a recurring metaphor in Chinese literature for the common people's endurance.

Stroke Order

野 yě

草 cǎo