茠

茠

茠 U+8320, 茠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8320 ← 茟 [U+831F] CJK Unified Ideographs 茡 → [U+8321]

Translingual

Han character

茠 (radical 140, 艸+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 廿人木 (TOD) or X廿人木 (XTOD), four-corner 4429₄, composition ⿱艹休)

1. to weed
2. to eradicate

References

• KangXi: page 1027, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30882
• Dae Jaweon: page 1487, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3205, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8320

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (休) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
茠	*qʰuː
烋	*qʰruː, *qʰru
恘	*kʰu
休	*qʰu
貅	*qʰu
咻	*qʰu, *qʰoʔ
庥	*qʰu
鵂	*qʰu
髤	*qʰu
髹	*qʰu

For pronunciation and definitions of 茠 – see 薅 (“to pull off weeds; to pull; to grab”). (This character, 茠, is a variant form of 薅.)