Chinese Character Wiki

薅

hāo

to weed

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

weed

媷 sound component

媷  Sound component

  

Evolution

薅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
薅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

薅  

hāo

to weed; to eradicate; to grip or clutch

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qʰˤu

xaw

hāo

weed (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6010th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+8585

Shuowen

“薅，拔去田艸也。从蓐，好省聲。，籀文薅省。茠，薅或从休。《詩》曰：‘既茠荼蓼。’”


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