glutinous rice

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartthul̥ ˤaglutinous rice
Zhengzhangl̥ʰaː
l̥ʰaːʔ

說文解字

稻也。从禾余聲。《周禮》曰:“牛宜稌。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica