What 糲 means
糲 means coarse or incompletely polished rice.
From rice, its meaning can extend to plain food or rough quality. A food compound may be literal; the surrounding phrase tells you when the sense is broader.
What does 糲 mean when someone sends it?
A bare 糲 does not reveal the sender's attitude.
A food phrase points to rice; an older literary phrase can describe plain fare or roughness. Read the words around it before assigning praise or criticism.
How did 糲 come to describe rough things?
糲's rice sense broadened to plain or rough quality.
An earlier form, 䊪, appears in the second-century CE Shuowen Jiezi, a Chinese dictionary; its entry defines a kind of rice produced by pounding grain. Later writing uses 糲 for the rice term.
Examples from the Tang and Ming periods use 糲 for plain food and rough quality. As of 2026, Japanese kanji references list both the rice meaning and broader rough or plain senses.
Literary and technical in feel; 糲 suits precise writing about rice or roughness more than casual everyday wording.
A bare 糲 cannot tell you whether the sender means rice or roughness.
Who writes 糲
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsA food phrase naming coarse or unpolished rice.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 糲 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 糲
- Also called
- 粝 · 䊪
- Search it as
- lì · 糲食 · 糲飯 · 粗糲 · coarse rice · unpolished rice
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
糲\7CF2Codes and encoding1 code points
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