purchase grains

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Jin 266-420 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartdeklˤewk buy grain

說文解字

《說文》:“糴,市穀也。从入,从。”

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica

dí, zá purchase grains Simplified

A house  where grain  is stored

Components

Meaning component
enter
Meaning component
rice

Sources

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Unicode