white millet

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

grass

己 sound component

  Sound component

  

self

Evolution

芑 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
芑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芑 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
芑 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

white millet; Panicum miliaceum

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5895th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

6

Unicode

U+8291

Shuowen

“芑,白苗,嘉穀。从艸,己聲。”


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