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chúliáng

army provisions

chú, zōu mow, cut grass Simplified

Simplified form of 芻. Pictograph of a hand picking off blades of grass.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 7 verified)

趋皱邹雏绉诌驺

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》p.70-71
Readings & variants: Unicode

liáng grain, food Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound. Simplified form of 糧.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

良 Sound component

liáng good

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	raŋ

說文解字

《說文》：“糧，穀也。从米，量聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

mow, cut grass Traditional

Pictograph of a hand picking off blades of grass.

Components

又 Iconic component

yòu hand

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 又 than it was in ancient scripts.

艸 Iconic component

cǎo grass

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Warring States ~250 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 7 verified)

趨蒭謅鄒騶雛皺

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tsrhju	[tsʰ]ro	grass for fuel or fodder

說文解字

《說文》：“芻，刈艸也。象包束艸之形。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫季旭昇《說文新證》 p.70-71
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

liáng grain, food Traditional

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

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

量 Sound component

liàng, liang, liáng measure

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ljang	[r]aŋ	grain, provisions

說文解字

《說文》：“糧，穀也。从米，量聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)