芜 — Chinese character
芜
wú
weeds; overgrowth
- Pinyin
- wú
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 艹 无
- Formation
- pictophonetic — weed; meaning component 艹; sound component 无
- Traditional
- 蕪
Common words with 芜
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 荒芜 (荒蕪) | huāng wú | left to return to unchecked growth; overgrown |
| 莱芜 (萊蕪) | lái wú | field with dense growth of wild weeds |
| 芜菁 (蕪菁) | wú jīng | turnip |
| 芜杂 (蕪雜) | wú zá | miscellaneous; mixed and disorderly (of writing) |
| 芜菁甘蓝 (蕪菁甘藍) | wú jīng gān lán | rutabaga (vegetable) |
| 繁芜 (繁蕪) | fán wú | wordy; verbose |
| 芜秽 (蕪穢) | wú huì | to be overgrown with weeds |
| 去芜存菁 (去蕪存菁) | qù wú cún jīng | lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom) |
| 平芜 (平蕪) | píng wú | open grassland |
| 榛芜 (榛蕪) | zhēn wú | wilderness; bushy and weedy |
| 芜俚 (蕪俚) | wú lǐ | coarse and vulgar |
| 芜劣 (蕪劣) | wú liè | muddled and inferior (of writing) |
English words written with 芜
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.