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Chinese symbol for “meadow”

草甸
cǎo diàn
meadow

The closest CC-CEDICT match for meadow is 草甸 (cǎo diàn), defined as: meadow.

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Characters and stroke order

草 cǎo
grass, herbs; straw, thatch
radical 140 ⾋ · 10 strokes
甸 diàn
suburbs of the capital; to govern; crops
radical 102 ⽥ · 7 strokes

Other Chinese words for “meadow”

WordPinyinMeaning
草地cǎo dìlawn; meadow

Related words

Other words that share a character with 草甸.

WordPinyinMeaning
草案cǎo àndraft (legislation, proposal etc)
草原cǎo yuángrassland; prairie
烟草 (煙草)yān cǎotobacco
起草qǐ cǎoto make a draft; to draw up (plans)
草莓cǎo méistrawberry; 颗 (kē)
草根cǎo gēngrass roots (lit. and fig.)
沉甸甸chén diàn diànheavy

See also: Japanese symbol for “meadow”.

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.