Chinese character 糏

Enter xie, then choose 糏. Pinyin writes Mandarin with Latin letters, usually without tone marks; many characters share the reading xiè, so check the glyph. If it is absent, switch to handwriting or stroke lookup.

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What does 糏 mean?

It names broken rice or wheat left after pounding. A separate dictionary gloss gives “rice flour,” but 糏 is a specialized grain term, not a general word for flour. The earliest dictionary record in the 玉篇 tradition is dated around 543; later dictionaries include 廣韻 and 集韻. A traditional gloss links 粿 with 糏: Song-era lexicons give 粿 the sense “clean rice,” and Ming-era records extend it to rice foods.

By 2026, a Nantong dialect account recorded 米糏, 小麦糏, and 焦麦糏 as names for glutinous-rice flour, wheat flour, and toasted wheat flour. This is a regional use, not standard Mandarin.