莠

莠 U+83A0, 莠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83A0
← 莟
[U+839F] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莡 →
[U+83A1]

Translingual

Han character

莠 (radical 140 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木尸 (THDS), four-corner 44227, composition ⿱艹秀)

  1. weeds, tares
  2. undesirable, evil

References

  • KangXi: page 1034, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31065
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1494, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3220, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+83A0

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 莠

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 莠
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (秀) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
透 *l̥ʰoːs, *hljuɡ
莠 *luʔ
誘 *luʔ
蜏 *luʔ, *slus, *lus
琇 *luʔ, *slus
秀 *slus
銹 *slus

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 莠
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 以 (36)
Final (韻) 尤 (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 與久切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /jɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /jiuX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /iəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /juwX/
Li
Rong		 /iuX/
Wang
Li		 /jĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yǒu
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yǒu
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ yuwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[l]uʔ/
English weeds

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 莠
Reading # 1/1
No. 13930
Phonetic
component		 秀
Rime
group		 幽
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 酉
Old
Chinese		 /*luʔ/

Definitions

莠

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Compounds

  • 良莠不分
  • 良莠不齊／良莠不齐
  • 良莠淆雜／良莠淆杂
  • 莠民
  • 莠狗尾草
  • 莠言

Japanese

Kanji

莠

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

莠 • (yu) (hangeul 유, revised yu, McCune–Reischauer yu, Yale yu)

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