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yǒu = y + ou3
Setaria viridis / vicious
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How to pronounce 莠

MandarinBanana teaches pronunciation with the Marilyn Method: every Pinyin syllable is one initial plus one final, the initial becomes a person, an animal or a deity, and the final becomes a place in your memory palace — with the tone deciding which part of that place the scene happens in. Remember the little story below for each half and the whole syllable comes back with them.

= y initial

Y is for Maud Younger.

By Matthias • updated about 2 months ago
+ ou3 final

In the outhouse’s living room.

By Matthias • updated about 2 months ago

莠 character breakdown

Chinese characters are built out of smaller characters. Each component carries a mnemonic symbol - one concrete object that stands in for it - and a mnemonic story hands those objects to the person and the place that stand for the pronunciation. Learn a component once and every character that reuses it gets easier.

Component Translations
cǎo = c + ao3
grass radical 草字頭兒|草字头儿[cao3 zi4 tou2 r5]
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xiù = xi + ou4
handsome / refined / elegant / graceful / superior / show (loanword) / CL:場|场[chang2] / (literary) to grow / to bloom / (of crops) to produce ears
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Characters with 莠 as component

莠 is not used as a component in another character.
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Words with 莠

useless / worthless / good-for-nothing
good and bad people intermingled

Sentences with 莠

莠 currently does not appear in any sentence.

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yǒu

Setaria viridis / vicious

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