What 糯 means
It means sticky rice, and by extension sticky grain. Early dictionaries record 稬 for this sticky-rice word, with 糯 listed as its alternate written form. Its everyday job was naming the chewy grain used for foods and brewing.
Everyday Chinese uses it as a modifier: 糯米 and 糯稻 are sticky rice, with later use extended to grains such as sticky wheat. A 2026 study places zongzi in seasonal and ritual life and reports related remains more than 2,300 years old; that history belongs to the food, not to Unicode.
Food vocabulary: clear inside a Chinese food word, puzzling on its own.
Do not read a lone 糯 for tone without the surrounding word.
Who writes 糯
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 糯 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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How to type or find 糯
- Search it as
- nuo · nuo4 · nuomi · sticky · glutinous · jiangmi · 糯米 · 糯稻
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
糯\7CEFCodes and encoding1 code points
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