Chinese Character Wiki

粢

zī

grain offered in ritual sacrifice

Components
次 sound component

次  Sound component

cì

  

second, next

米 meaning component

米  Meaning component

mǐ

  

rice

millet

Evolution

粢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
粢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
粢 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
粢 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
粢 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

粢  

zī

grain offered in ritual sacrifice; millet; common millet

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ij

tsij

zī

Setaria italica


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5749th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7CA2

Shuowen

“餈，稻餅也，从食，次聲。，餈或从齊。粢，餈或从米。”


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