Half-cooked rice character

It names rice whose grains remain raw after cooking. In classical Chinese, it is a specific cooking term, not a broad label for food gone wrong.

The Erya, an early Chinese dictionary, gives the line “米者謂之糪” (“rice is called 糪”). By 88–144 CE, the Shuowen Jiezi, an early character dictionary, records it as a cooking term and analyzes 米 as the rice part and 辟 as the sound element.

The later rhyme dictionary Guangyun glosses it as half-raw rice. A commentary on the Analects, a classic Chinese text, connects it to 失飪, food cooked improperly. The Erya also places it beside 糷 for clumped rice, 敗 for spoiled meat, and 餒 for spoiled fish.

How do I type 糪?

Use bó in Mandarin pinyin, or enter SJFD in Cangjie.

A pinyin input method may show several candidates; choose 糪. In Cangjie, enter SJFD; in Wubi, enter NKUO.

Fonts draw this Han character, so stroke styles can vary. A font without the glyph may show a missing-character box; the character's identity stays the same.