莠 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

yǒu

weeds

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 秀 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

秀 Sound component

xiù

elegant, excellent

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

yǒu

weeds, tares; undesirable, evil; Setaria viridis; vicious

Most common words with 莠

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	良莠不齐	good and bad people intermingled
	莠	vicious
	不稂不莠	useless

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*[l]uʔ	yuwX	yǒu	weeds

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5241st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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