Chinese Character 莠 Meanings and components.

Form

莠

Meaning

莠 meaning[3] in English

Setaria Viridis.

Vicious.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 莠 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 … (艹) , and handsome (秀)

Its radical[1] is: 艸 (cao3) which means: Variant Of 草[Cao3], .艸cao3variant of …

In cangjie it is written with THDS

How to write 莠

To write莠you3Setaria viridis you should write a combination of 艹cao3grass radical … , 秀xiu4handsome arranged in a 吕 shape:

艹 + 秀 = 莠

莠 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 莠 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 莠, looks as follow:

莠
Pinyin:you3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Setaria Viridis . Vicious
艹
Pinyin:cao3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: Grass Radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[Cao3 Zi4 Tou2 R5]
秀
Pinyin:xiu4 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Handsome . Refined . Elegant . Graceful . Superior . Show (Loanword) . Cl:場|场[Chang2] . (Literary) To Grow . To Bloom . (Of Crops) To Produce Ears
禾
Pinyin:he2
Meaning[3]: Cereal . Grain
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]
木
Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Surname Mu
乃
Pinyin:nai3 Shape:一
Meaning[3]: To Be . Thus . So . Therefore . Then . Only . Thereupon

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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