rice cake

Evolution

餈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餈 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

 

rice cake; fried rice cake

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*dzij

dzij

rice or millet cake


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7643rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+9908

Shuowen

“餈,稻餅也,从食,次聲。,餈或从齊。粢,餈或从米。”


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