mí, méi
rice gruel
Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 麻 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.m(r)aj | mje | mí | rice gruel; destroy, crush |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3713th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Unicode | U+7CDC |
Shuowen | “糜,糝也。从米,麻聲。” |
Sources
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