野草

yěcǎo

noun #22,059

Meanings

1 weeds
2 wild grass

Characters

wild / countryside

grass / plant / weed

Examples

HSK 6

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.

HSK 7-9

野火烧不尽，春风吹又生。

Yěhuǒ shāo bù jìn, chūnfēng chuī yòu shēng.

Wildfire cannot burn them all out; the spring wind blows and they grow again. (from Bai Juyi's poem on 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