稷
jì

god of cereals

稷 jì
god of cereals noun
the deity of grain worshiped by ancient Chinese rulers, often specifically referring to the figure Hou Ji
millet noun
any of several species of cereal grass or their small seeds, particularly proso millet, which was a staple food in ancient China
minister of agriculture noun
an official position in the ancient Chinese government responsible for overseeing farming and grain production

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Has old variant

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)