莠

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莠 U+83A0, 莠
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83A0
← 莟
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莡 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 莠
simp. # 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
Baxter yuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/jɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/jiuX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/iəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/juwX/
Li
Rong 		/iuX/
Wang
Li 		/jĭəuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/i̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		jau5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 莠
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		yǒu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ yuwX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*uʔ/
English weeds

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * 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

  1. Setaria viridis (green foxtail, green bristlegrass, wild foxtail millet)
  2. (figurative) bad (one)

Synonyms

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

莠

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • On (unclassified): ゆう (yū)、しゅう (shū)
  • Kun: はぐさ (hagusa)、みにくい (minikui)

Korean

Hanja

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

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