秀, grain crops putting forth ears and flowers, serves as phonetic component to form characters.
In modern Chinese 秀 means:
fruit, grow, fine, beautiful, pretty, flourishing, luxuriant, flower, show
Characters formed by the phonetic component 秀
绣锈琇 the same pronunciation xiù
诱唀 the same pronunciation yòu
莠蜏 the same pronunciation yǒu
透 tòu