Chinese Character Wiki
秫

shú

glutinous variety of millet

Components
禾 meaning component

禾  Meaning component

hé

  

grain stalk

grain

朮 sound,meaning component

朮  Sound Meaning component

shù, zhú

  

glutinous millet

Evolution

秫 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
秫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
秫 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
秫 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

秫  

shú

glutinous variety of millet; broomcorn millet (Panicum spp.); Panicum italicum; glutinous millet

Most common words with 秫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

秫

Panicum italicum

秫米

Panicum italicum

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m.lut (~ *mə.lut)

zywit

shú

glutinous millet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5884th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+79EB

Shuowen

“秫，稷之黏者。从禾、术，象形。术，秫或省禾。”


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