cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartgjoX[N]-k(r)aʔcakes
Zhengzhangɡaʔ

說文解字

粔籹,膏環也。从米巨聲。

Sources

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