shǔ
glutinous millet
Grain 禾 that can be fermented to make wine 氺
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Western Zhou (1045-771 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-tʰaʔ | syoX | shǔ | Panicum miliaceum, glutinous |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5081st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Unicode | U+9ECD |
Shuowen | “黍，禾屬而黏者也。以大暑而穜，故謂之黍。从禾，雨省聲。孔子曰：黍可為酒，禾入水也。” |
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