䊆

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 臼 (“to pound”) + 米 (“rice”)

Han character

䊆 (radical 119 米+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹X火木 (HXFD))

1. cooked, dry rice flour, (same as 糗) cured dried grain; parched wheat or rice

Derived terms

• 毇

References

• KangXi: page 908, character 34
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3147, character 7
• Unihan data for U+4286

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Cantonese

Hanzi

䊆 (jyutping kaau3, Yale kaau3)

1. a lump
2. measure word

Compounds

• 一䊆飯
• 一䊆䊆

Usage notes

Usually written as 嚿 in Cantonese

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Mandarin

Hanzi

䊆 (pinyin jiù (jiu4), qiǔ (qiu3), Wade-Giles jiu⁴, qiu³)

Last modified on 24 December 2012, at 12:35