U+8585 "薅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8585 "薅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to weed, pull out, or remove plants or hair by the roots, often used in agricultural contexts. It is composed of the grass radical (艹) indicating its relation to plants, combined with a phonetic component, and is commonly seen in classical and modern Chinese texts describing farming tasks, such as weeding fields, or metaphorically for extracting unwanted elements. This character appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems and carries a vivid sense of manual, corrective labor.