籴
dí

purchase grains

A house 入 where grain 米 is stored

Components

入
入 Meaning component
rù enter
米
米 Meaning component
mǐ rice

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

糴 purchase grains Traditional

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
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)