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粥

zhōu, yù

rice gruel, porridge

Depicts porridge being made from rice (米) around hot rising steam. Derived from 鬻.

Components
◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts hot steam rising.

米 iconic component

米  Iconic component

mǐ

  

rice

Evolution

粥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
粥 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
粥 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

粥  

zhōu

rice gruel, congee; congee; gruel; porridge; CL:碗[wǎn]

粥  

yù

see 葷粥|荤粥[Xūn​yù]

Most common words with 粥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

粥

congee

一锅粥

(lit.) a pot of porridge

粥样硬化

atherosclerosis

稀粥

water gruel

腊八粥

Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*t-quk

tsyuwk

zhōu

gruel


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 2.0663% of movies

2962nd most common character in movies

3021st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+7CA5

Shuowen

“鬻，也。从，米聲。”


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