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莠

yǒu

Character

What 莠 means

1. Setaria viridis
2. vicious

Example sentences

• 我们的社会良莠不齐。
  In our society we find men of integrity along with crooks.
• 莠草易长， 恶习易染。
  Yǒu cǎo yì cháng, èxí yì rǎn.
  Ill weeds grow apace.

Words containing 莠

• 良莠不齐liáng yǒu bù qígood and bad people intermingled
• 毒莠定dú yǒu dìngpicloram
• 不稂不莠bù láng bù yǒuuseless; worthless; good-for-nothing

Characters built on 秀

These share the phonetic component 秀 (xiù), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 透tòu(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly…
• 诱yòu(literary) to induce; to entice

Characters that look like 莠

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 要yàoto want; to need; to ask for; will; shall; about to; need to; should
• 票piàoticket; ballot; banknote
• 婴yīnginfant; baby
• 娶qǔto take a wife; to marry (a woman)
• 荚jiápod (botany)
• 荞qiáocommon mallow (Malva sinensis); variant of 荞

Sounds the same

Read yǒu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 有to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意
• 友friend
• 酉10th earthly branch: 5-7 p.m., 8th solar month (8th September-7th October), year of the…
• 黝black; dark green
• 铕europium (chemistry)
• 卣wine container
• 牖to enlighten; lattice window
• 懮grievous; relaxed
• 羑to lead
• 槱ritual bonfire
• 泑the vitreous glaze on china, porcelain etc
• 丣old variant of 酉