草木
cǎo mù
Pinyin

Definition

草木
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cǎo mù
  1. vegetation
  2. plants

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

木
Mù
  1. 1 surname Mu
仙草
xiān cǎo
  1. 1 medicinal herb (genus Mesona)
  2. 2 grass jelly
有木有
yǒu mù yǒu
  1. 1 (slang) come on, you can't deny it!
  2. 2 don't you think so?!
  3. 3 (melodramatic form of 有沒有|有没有)
木偶
mù ǒu
  1. 1 puppet
木星
Mù xīng
  1. 1 Jupiter (planet)
木板
mù bǎn
  1. 1 slab
  2. 2 board
  3. 3 plank
  4. 4 CL:張|张[zhāng],塊|块[kuài]
木瓜
mù guā
  1. 1 papaya (Carica papaya)
  2. 2 genus Chaenomeles of shrubs in the family Rosaceae
  3. 3 Chinese flowering quince (Chaenomeles speciosa)
木耳
mù ěr
  1. 1 edible tree fungus
  2. 2 CL:朵[duǒ]
木兰
Mù lán
  1. 1 Mulan county in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[Hā ěr bīn], Heilongjiang
  2. 2 see 花木蘭|花木兰[Huā Mù lán]
木制
mù zhì
  1. 1 wooden
木质
mù zhì
  1. 1 wooden
木头
mù tou
  1. 1 slow-witted
  2. 2 blockhead
  3. 3 log (of wood, timber etc)
  4. 4 CL:塊|块[kuài],根[gēn]
木马
mù mǎ
  1. 1 wooden horse
  2. 2 rocking horse
  3. 3 vaulting horse (gymnastics)
  4. 4 trojan horse (computing)
本草
běn cǎo
  1. 1 a book on Chinese (herbal) medicine
  2. 2 Chinese materia medica
校草
xiào cǎo
  1. 1 the most handsome boy in the school (see also 校花[xiào huā])
树木
shù mù
  1. 1 tree
乌鲁木齐
Wū lǔ mù qí
  1. 1 Ürümqi or Urumqi prefecture level city and capital of Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区 in west China
烟草
yān cǎo
  1. 1 tobacco
甘草
gān cǎo
  1. 1 licorice root
皮草
pí cǎo
  1. 1 fur clothing

Idioms (20)

一木难支
yī mù nán zhī
  1. 1 lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. one is helpless alone
人生一世，草木一春
rén shēng yī shì , cǎo mù yī chūn
  1. 1 Man has but one life, grass but one spring (idiom). fig. the brevity of human existence
你走你的阳关道，我过我的独木桥
nǐ zǒu nǐ de Yáng guān Dào , wǒ guò wǒ de dú mù qiáo
  1. 1 lit. you hit the high road, I'll cross the log bridge (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you go your way, I'll go mine
  3. 3 you do it your way, I'll do it mine
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兵马未动，粮草先行
bīng mǎ wèi dòng , liáng cǎo xiān xíng
  1. 1 before the troops move, fodder and provisions go first (idiom); logistics comes before military maneuvers
  2. 2 an army marches on its stomach
刚毅木讷
gāng yì mù nè
  1. 1 resolute and taciturn (idiom)
剪草除根
jiǎn cǎo chú gēn
  1. 1 lit. cut grass and pull out roots (idiom); fig. to destroy root and branch
  2. 2 to eradicate
十年树木，百年树人
shí nián shù mù , bǎi nián shù rén
  1. 1 It takes ten years to nurture a tree, but a hundred years to train a man (idiom). A good education program takes a long time to develop.
又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草
yòu yào mǎ r5 pǎo , yòu yào mǎ r5 bù chī cǎo
  1. 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
呆若木鸡
dāi ruò mù jī
  1. 1 lit. dumb as a wooden chicken (idiom); fig. dumbstruck
单丝不成线，独木不成林
dān sī bù chéng xiàn , dú mù bù chéng lín
  1. 1 one strand does not make a thread, one tree does not make a forest (idiom)
土木形骸
tǔ mù xíng hái
  1. 1 earth and wood framework (idiom); plain and undecorated body
土牛木马
tǔ niú mù mǎ
  1. 1 clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance
  2. 2 worthless object
天涯何处无芳草
tiān yá hé chù wú fāng cǎo
  1. 1 there are plenty more fish in the sea (idiom)
奇花异草
qí huā yì cǎo
  1. 1 very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)
好马不吃回头草
hǎo mǎ bù chī huí tóu cǎo
  1. 1 lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc)
  3. 3 leave the past behind
守株待兔，缘木求鱼
shǒu zhū dài tù , yuán mù qiú yú
  1. 1 to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits, and climb a tree to catch fish (idiom); without any practical course of action
寸草不生
cùn cǎo bù shēng
  1. 1 lit. not even a blade of grass grows (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. barren
山颓木坏
shān tuí mù huài
  1. 1 lit. the mountains crumble and the trees lie ruined
  2. 2 a great sage has died (idiom)
打草惊蛇
dǎ cǎo jīng shé
  1. 1 lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy
  3. 3 to punish sb as a warning to others

Sample Sentences

但她总觉得心中有一种说不出的寂寞。与草木倾吐心事时，草木听不懂她的话，跟鸟兽诉说烦躁时，鸟兽不了解她的苦恼。
dàn tā zǒng juéde xīnzhōng yǒu yī zhǒng shuōbuchū de jìmò 。yǔ cǎomù qīngtǔ xīnshì shí ，cǎomù tīngbudǒng tā de huà ，gēn niǎoshòu sùshuō fánzào shí ，niǎoshòu bù liǎojiě tā de kǔnǎo 。
But she felt in her heart an inexplicable sense of loneliness. When she poured out her heart to the plants and trees, they couldn't understand her; when she related her sorrows to the birds and beasts, they couldn't understand her suffering.
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