# 莠

| 莠 | U+83A0, &#33696; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-83A0 |
| ← 莟 [U+839F] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 莡 → [U+83A1] |

## Translingual
### Han character

莠 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿竹木尸 (THDS), four-corner 4422$_7$, composition ⿱艹秀)

#### Derived characters

* 璓

#### 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
### Glyph origin

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

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yǒu, yòu (you$^3$, you$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄧㄡˇ, ㄧㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jau$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland, variant in Taiwan)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yǒu
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^3$
*** Yale: yǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yeou
*** Palladius: ю (ju)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯²¹⁴/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan, variant in Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yòu
*** Zhuyin: ㄧㄡˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yòu
*** Wade–Giles: yu$^4$
*** Yale: yòu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yow
*** Palladius: ю (ju)
*** Sinological IPA : /joʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jau$^5$
*** Yale: yáuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jau$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yeo$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐu̯¹³/
* Middle Chinese: yuwX
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 | /jɨu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jiu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /iəu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /juw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /iu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /jĭəu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /i̯ə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jau$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]uʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*luʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 莠 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yǒu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ yuw$^X$ › |
| 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
* Setaria viridis (green foxtail, green bristlegrass, wild foxtail millet)
* (figurative) bad (one)

#### Synonyms

* (Setaria viridis)
** 狗尾草 (gǒuwěicǎo)
** 狗尾巴草 (gǒuwěibacǎo)

#### Compounds

* 不稂不莠 (bùlángbùyǒu)
* 稂莠
* 良莠不一
* 良莠不分
* 良莠不齊／良莠不齐 (liángyǒubùqí)
* 良莠淆雜／良莠淆杂
* 莠民
* 莠狗尾草
* 莠言

## Japanese
### Kanji

(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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