U+83A0 "莠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
莠
U+83A0 "莠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "weeds" or "bad grass," often specifically referring to foxtail or similar undesirable plants that grow among crops. In classical and modern usage, it carries a metaphorical sense of that which is harmful or worthless mingling with the good, as seen in the idiom "良莠不齐" meaning the good and the bad are intermingled. The character is composed of the grass radical (艹) indicating its botanical nature and the phonetic component (秀) suggesting sound, and it is used in both literary and practical agricultural contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+83A0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 莠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 莠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x8E 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x83A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000083A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u83a0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B2FB |
| kCCCII | 21552F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5D22 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5D22 |
| kCangjie | THDS |
| kCantonese | jau5 |
| kCihaiT | 1140.606 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1494.010 |
| kDefinition | weeds, tares; undesirable, evil |
| kEACC | 21552F |
| kFanqie | 與久 |
| kFenn | 217H |
| kFennIndex | 639.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.7 |
| kGB0 | 6112 |
| kGB1 | 6112 |
| kGSR | 1095d |
| kHangul | 유:1N |
| kHanYu | 53220.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53220.010:yǒu,xiù |
| kHKGlyph | 3465 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1494.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53220.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1034.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5D2C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B2FB |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-683C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6E0A |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6978 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5D22 |
| kJapanese | ユウ シュウ ユ シュ はぐさ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4432 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAGUSA MINIKUI |
| kJapaneseOn | YUU SHUU |
| kJis0 | 7228 |
| kKangXi | 1034.220 |
| kKorean | YU |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5452 |
| kMandarin | yǒu |
| kMatthews | 7537 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3857c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022015 MJ022015:E0101 MJ022016:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 31065:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1145 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6373+140.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.7 |
| kSBGY | 324.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 583.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǒu粵jau5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5452 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 444.120:yǒu |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 266:363 |
| kXHC1983 | 1400.090:yǒu |