糨糊
jiàng​hu

paste

糨 jiàng, jiāng starch

Components

米
米 Meaning component
mǐ rice

rice

强
强 Sound component
qiáng, qiǎng strong

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

糊 hu, hú muddled, paste

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 胡 represents the sound.

Components

米
米 Meaning component
mǐ rice
胡
胡 Sound component
hú beard

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarthuCə.[g]ˤa
(~ *C.[g]ˤa; no pre-Qín exx.)		to paste (v.)

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart