grain ready for grinding

Grain bearing fruit  also provides the pronunciation

Components

Meaning component
grain stalk
SoundMeaning component
guǒ fruit

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangkʰloːl
ɡroːlʔ

說文解字

穀之善者。从禾果聲。一曰無皮穀。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica