Chinese symbol for “draft”
草案
cǎo àn
draft (legislation, proposal etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for draft is 草案 (cǎo àn), defined as: draft (legislation, proposal etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “draft”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草稿 | cǎo gǎo | draft; outline |
| 起 | qǐ | to rise; to raise |
| 绘制 (繪製) | huì zhì | to draw; to draft (a map, blueprint, diagram, illustration etc) |
| 拟制 (擬製) | nǐ zhì | to draft (a plan etc) |
| 拟稿 (擬稿) | nǐ gǎo | to draft (a statement) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 草案.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 草原 | cǎo yuán | grassland; prairie |
| 烟草 (煙草) | yān cǎo | tobacco |
| 起草 | qǐ cǎo | to make a draft; to draw up (plans) |
| 草莓 | cǎo méi | strawberry; 颗 (kē) |
| 草根 | cǎo gēn | grass roots (lit. and fig.) |
| 方案 | fāng àn | plan; program (for action etc) |
| 案件 | àn jiàn | case; instance |
| 答案 | dá àn | answer; solution |
See also: Japanese symbol for “draft”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.