0139 - 草[초] - 풀 - grass, straw, thatch, herbs

The Story [이야기] :

• This is a pictophonetic character.  "Grass/Plant" 艹 suggests the meaning, while 早[조 → 초] suggests the sound.  The character 早 means "early".  It is the picture of the sun 日 at 10 a.m. 十 in the morning.  Early 早 in a plant's 艹 life, it is like a grass.   

Stroke Order [획순] :

New Vocabulary [새로운 단어] :

해초 [海草] - seaweeds; sea plants; algae
초가 [草家] - a straw- [grass-]roofed house; a house with straw-thatched roof
초목 [草木] - trees and grass; plants; vegetation
초식 [草食] - grass-eating; living on grass; eating vegetables
초식하다 [草食하다] - eat grass; live on grass [vegetables]
초식동물 [草食動物] - a herbivore
민초 [民草] - grass-roots; the people
초지 [草地] - grassland; a grassy place [plain]; a green (field); a pasture; a meadow
청초 [靑草] - green grass; green tobacco
백년초 [百年草] - a cactus (pl. ~es, -ti)
백일초 [百日草] - a zinnia (type of flower)
불로초 [不老草] - a herb of eternal youth
해인초 [海人草] - corsican weed
일일초 [日日草] - Vinca rosea
매일초 [每日草] - Madagascar periwinkle

 

Example Sentences [예문] :

이 生命체가 草食動物로 진화할지 아니면 육食動物로 진화할지는 플레이어에게 달려 있다.
It is up to the player to decide whether or not the organism should evolve into an herbivore or a carnivore.

이제 이 海草가 地구上에서 가장 오래된 生命체로 여겨지고 있습니다.
Now the seagrass is considered to be the oldest living organism on Earth.

韓國에서는, 수直의 축을 따라 氣후 변화가 뚜렷한데, 이로 인해 추운 北쪽과 따뜻한 南쪽 사이에 草木의 차이가 나타난다.
In Korea, climate variations are pronounced along the vertical axis, which cause the distinction in plant vegetations between the cold north and the warm south.

일일초 [日日草] - Vinca rosea