liáng

better varieties of millet

Components
氵 unknown component

  Unknown component

shuishuǐ

  

water

刅 sound component

  Sound component

chuāng

  

to create

米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

millet

Evolution

粱 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
粱 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

liáng

better varieties of millet; sorghum

Most common words with 粱
Freq.
Word
Meaning

高粱

sorghum

黄粱一梦

dream of golden millet

sorghum

黄粱美梦

dream of golden millet

黄粱梦

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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