What 粺 means
It names finely milled rice. The Shijing, an early Chinese poetry collection, contrasts coarse grain with 粺 in “彼疏斯粺,” a complaint about unequal provisions.
Qin-dynasty bamboo slips (records on bamboo strips) use 粺米 in ration rules for officials and messengers. The Nine Chapters, an early mathematics text, uses it in grain calculations. The Han-dynasty Shuowen Jiezi, a character dictionary, analyzes 粺 as 米 (rice or grain) plus 卑, which hints at its sound. The Japanese reading of 粺 is しらげよね, meaning polished rice.
Its records are poetic, historical, or lexicographic; it feels bookish.
A lone 粺 leaves the sense open; nearby words tell rice from 稗.
Who writes 粺
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Questions people ask
1Why does 粺 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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- Search it as
- 粺米 · polished rice · 精米 · 白米 · しらげよね · bai · bài
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
粺\7CBACodes and encoding1 code points
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