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Kanji Detail for 糧 - "provisions, food, resources"

糧

  • Meaning

    糧 means "provisions, food, resources."

    1. Provisions - Food supplies; sustenance.

    2. Food - Nourishment; what sustains life.

    3. Resources - Means of support.

  • Words using 糧

    • 食糧 しょくりょう Listen food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations
    • 食糧庁 しょくりょうちょう Listen food agency

  • Tattoo check: 糧

    • Verified meaning: provisions, food, resources
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read はぜ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 糧

    Surnames 糧(はぜ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    provisions; food; bread

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    food, grain, provisions

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    grain; food; provisions; agricultural tax paid in grain

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    food, grain, provisions

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Grain food. (Commentary to Rites of Zhou) "When traveling, it is called 糧. When staying, it is called 食." Confucius ran out of provisions in Chen. This is it. Now military supplies are called 糧. Such as 糧餉 (rations), 糧臺 (commissariat). | Land tax. Land tax is called 糧. Such as 錢糧 (taxes), 公糧 (public grain).

  • Onyomi

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    roh(ロウ) ロウ

    ryoh(リョウ) リョウ

  • Kunyomi

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    kate(かて) かて

  • Strokes

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    18 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    米 (kome・komehen)

  • Related Keywords

    provisions food resources grain tax diet livelihood nourishment rations subsistence supplies sustenance

Sentences including 糧

  • We ran short of food.

  • Food has been in short supply.

  • What will you live on while you are there?

  • Old people need someone to live on.

  • We ran out of food.

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