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草率

cǎo shuài

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

草率 (cǎo shuài) means "careless; negligent; sloppy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 草率 means

1. careless
2. negligent
3. sloppy
4. not serious

The characters in 草率

• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript
• 率lǜ(bound form) ratio; rate; proportion

Example sentences

• 麻烦的开头是他草率的评论。
  Máfan de kāitóu shì tā cǎoshuài de pínglùn.
  The beginning of the trouble was his careless remark.

Words starting with 草率

• 草率收兵cǎo shuài shōu bīngto work vaguely then retreat (idiom); sloppy and half-hearted; half-baked

Where 草率 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cǎo–chà (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read cǎo shuài correctly.
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