Chinese symbol for “weeds”
杂草
zá cǎo
Traditional: 雜草
weeds
The closest CC-CEDICT match for weeds is 杂草 (zá cǎo), defined as: weeds.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “weeds”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 野草 | yě cǎo | weeds; mistress or prostitute (old) |
| 荒草 | huāng cǎo | weeds; brush (vegetation) |
| 葍 | fú | weeds |
| 稂 | láng | grass; weeds |
| 菆 | zōu | arrow; weeds |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 杂草.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 复杂 (複雜) | fù zá | complicated; complex |
| 杂志 (雜誌) | zá zhì | magazine; measure word: 本 (běn), 份 (fèn), 期 (qī) |
| 杂交 (雜交) | zá jiāo | to hybridize; to crossbreed |
| 杂种 (雜種) | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed |
| 混杂 (混雜) | hùn zá | to mix; to mingle |
| 草案 | cǎo àn | draft (legislation, proposal etc) |
| 草原 | cǎo yuán | grassland; prairie |
| 烟草 (煙草) | yān cǎo | tobacco |
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.