kāng

chaff

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

康 sound component

  Sound component

kāng

  

peaceful, healthy

Definitions

 

kāng

chaff, bran, husks; poor; husk; (of a radish etc) spongy (and therefore unappetising)

() 

kāng

old variant of [kāng]

() 

kāng

variant of [kāng]

Most common words with 糠
Freq.
Word
Meaning

husk

米糠

bran

糠醛

furfural (chemistry)

筛糠

to sift chaff

糟糠

junk

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4169th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Unicode

U+7CE0


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