莠 — Chinese character
莠
yǒu
weeds, tares; evil, undesirable
- Pinyin
- yǒu
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 艹 秀
- Formation
- pictophonetic — weed; meaning component 艹; sound component 秀
- Japanese
- 莠 as a kanji
Common words with 莠
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 良莠不齐 (良莠不齊) | liáng yǒu bù qí | good and bad people intermingled |
| 不稂不莠 | bù láng bù yǒu | useless; worthless |
| 毒莠定 | dú yǒu dìng | picloram |
莠 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
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.