liáng

grain, food

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
米 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rice

量 sound component

  Sound component

liàngliáng

  

measure

Evolution

糧 Bronze script Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Bronze script

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)
糧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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liáng

food, grain, provisions; grain; food; provisions; agricultural tax paid in grain

Most common words with 糧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

粮食

foodstuff

grain

口粮

ration

粗粮

coarse grains (maize, sorghum etc)

粮仓

granary

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[r]aŋ

ljang

liáng

grain, provisions


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 3.2677% of movies

2627th most common character in movies

1303rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

18

Simplified

Unicode

U+7CE7

Shuowen

“糧,穀也。从米,量聲。”


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