liáng
better varieties of millet
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 粱
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
sorghum | ||
dream of golden millet | ||
sorghum | ||
dream of golden millet | ||
dream of golden millet |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[r]aŋ | ljang | liáng | millet, sorghum, grain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3599th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7CB1 |
Shuowen | “粱,米名也。从米,梁省聲。” |
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