莽草 Save Sign in to save words mǎngcǎo ㄇㄤˇ ㄘㄠˇ Chinese anise (Ilicium anisatum, a shrub with poisonous leaves) Character by character 莽(mǎng)dense growth of grass 草(cǎo)grass Other words read mǎngcǎo mangcao with other tones 芒草 Often confused with mangcao 蔓草 A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0