稷
jì

god of cereals

稷 jì
millet
An ancient grain crop; some scholars identify it specifically as broomcorn millet (the non-sticky variety), common millet, or sorghum.
god of agriculture
The god of cereals or harvest in ancient Chinese religion; often paired with the god of earth 社 shè to represent the state in the term 社稷 shè​jì.
minister of agriculture
An official title in ancient China for the person in charge of farming and agricultural affairs.
surname
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
3,887th most common 3.30 per million
Movie subtitles
5,690th most common 0.020 per million appears in 0% of films
Word
Written text
0.639 per million

Details
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+7A37

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)