god of cereals

Components
禾 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

grain stalk

grain

畟 sound component

  Sound component

  

plough

Evolution

稷 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
稷 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

god of cereals; minister of agriculture; millet; God of cereals worshiped by ancient rulers

Most common words with 稷
Freq.
Word
Meaning

社稷

state

millet

稷山县

Jishan county in Yuncheng 運城|运城[Yùn​chéng], Shanxi

稷山

Jishan county in Yuncheng 運城|运城[Yùn​chéng], Shanxi

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts]ək

tsik

millet (Setaria italica)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3887th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+7A37

Shuowen

“稷,也,五穀之長。从禾,畟聲。,古文稷省。”


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