After the rain Grandma went to the field to pull weeds.
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薅 is rare in modern Chinese, kept alive in rural and colloquial speech: 薅草 (to weed) and the slangy 薅羊毛 (literally 'to pluck wool', to milk freebies / take advantage of a deal).
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Mostly dialectal and colloquial, common in farming talk and internet slang, uncommon in formal writing.
The grass radical 艹 marks the meaning: the thing pulled up is grass and weeds.
phonetic
媷rù
to weed (woman + 辱)
Below the grass sits a body built from 女 over 辱, which carries an old 'weeding' sense and lends the sound base; the whole graph means tearing weeds out by the roots.
