shū

beans and peas

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

叔 sound component

  Sound component

shū

  

uncle

Definitions

 

shū

beans and peas, collectively; legumes (peas and beans)

Most common words with 菽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

legumes (peas and beans)

布帛菽粟

food and clothing

不辨菽麦

lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-t(ʰ)uk

syuwk

shū

pulse, beans


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5618th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+83FD


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