潦
草

Slipshod in Chinese: 潦草 (liáo cǎo)

liáo cǎo

slipshod

HSK 3.0 Levels 7-91 example sentence

Definitions

  1. 1slipshod; careless; slovenly
  2. 2(of handwriting) scrawly; illegible

Stroke order

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潦
草

Zhuyin

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ㄌㄧㄠˊ

liáo

ㄌ/ lㄧ/ iㄠ/ aoˊ/ second tone

ㄘㄠˇ

cǎo

ㄘ/ cㄠ/ aoˇ/ third tone

Example sentences

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  • 他写的字太潦草，我看不清楚。

    tā xiě de zì tài liáo cǎo， wǒ kàn bù qīng chǔ。

    His handwriting is too sloppy for me to read clearly.

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Related words

草

cǎo

grass

草地

cǎo dì

lawn

草原

cǎo yuán

grassland

草案

cǎo àn

draft (legislation, proposal etc)

草坪

cǎo píng

lawn

稻草

dào cǎo

rice straw

起草

qǐ cǎo

to make a draft

奇花异草

qí huā yì cǎo

very rarely seen, unusual (idiom)

斩草除根

zhǎn cǎo chú gēn

to cut weeds and eliminate the roots (idiom)

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HSK 3.0 Levels 7-9 vocabulary list

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