yǒu
weeds
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 秀 represents the sound.
Components
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
ModernDefinitions
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
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+83A0 |
Shuowen | “莠,禾粟下生莠。从艸,秀聲。讀若酉。” |
Sources
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